Elaine Chao has learned to keep her comments off when posting on social media amid her husband’s continued absence from Congress. Chao returned to X on Thursday to tout an award she received from the Aero Club of Washington. Elaine Chao on XHer posts on July 3 and July 15 similarly had no comments. Mitch McConnell's office has released two proof-of-life photos since he was hospitalized on June 14. Neither did Chao reference her husband in her lengthy acceptance speech urging Congress to act on air traffic modernization.