NPR
Joel Rose
15 January 2025

Who: Sean Duffy

Nominated for: secretary of transportation

You might know him from: Fox News, where Duffy has been a contributor since 2020. He also spent more than 8 years in Congress as a GOP Representative from his native Wisconsin.

More about Duffy:

  • Long record of public service, but his transportation resume is short 
  • One of many Trump cabinet picks with ties to Fox News
  • Starred on MTV's "The Real World" before going into politics 

Position: The Secretary of Transportation leads a department with a budget of more than $100 billion that's tasked with maintaining the nation's aviation system, highways, railroads and ports.

Read on: Trump's transportation secretary pick Sean Duffy at Congress : NPR

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