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The incoming Trump administration is looking to “unleash the potential” of private investors to boost the national transportation networks that underpin the U.S. economy, the president-elect’s pick for transportation secretary, Elaine Chao, told lawmakers Wednesday.

Trump’s wealthy Treasury appointee, Steven Mnuchin, says in new government ethics filings he will sell more than $100 million in assets upon taking office. But comments he made in a November TV interview may have boosted the value of one of them.

Trump on Wednesday tapped the Department of Veterans Affairs’ top health official, David Shulkin, to lead a beleaguered agency struggling to meet the health needs of millions of veterans.

Black lawmakers said Wednesday that Sen. Jeff Sessions at times has shown hostility toward civil rights, making him unfit to be attorney general, as a 1986 letter from the widow of Martin Luther King Jr., surfaced strongly expressing opposition to the Alabama senator.

Source: Associated Press