Elaine Chao: “The role of government is to foster the right environment in which job creation can occur.”

The critical work to combat the haunting rise of hatred against the AAPI community must intensify with the immediacy, this latest tragedy commands.

We probably will not have enough skilled trades workers to be able to address all the infrastructure needs when it finally gets all going . . . So, the workforce training and retraining part is important.

We want all funding and financing options to be available, because that is going to be the biggest challenge facing this infrastructure proposal.

No political pressure is going to take one of those projects, put it at the head of the line, ahead of all other projects, which is what is happening in this particular case.