Former labor secretary Elaine Chao won confirmation to lead the Department of Transportation on Tuesday, sailing through the Senate by a wide bipartisan margin of 93 to 6.

The wife of Senate majority leader Mitch McConnell and DOT official during the Reagan and George H.W. Bush administrations will be tasked with helping spearhead President Donald Trump’s ambitious plans to overhaul the nation’s infrastructure, which he said could be a $1 trillion undertaking.

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