OAN Staff James Meyers
11:14 AM – Tuesday, January 28, 2025
The Senate has confirmed former Representative Sean Duffy to become the next Secretary of Transportation.
President Donald Trump’s Cabinet nominee was confirmed Tuesday, with an overwhelming 77-22 vote.
Duffy was expected to easily clear the voting threshold. He was unanimously advanced by the Senate Commerce, Science and Transportation Committee with a 28-0 vote last week, and in a unanimous procedural vote on the Senate floor Monday evening.
Meanwhile, Duffy takes over an agency that has over 55,000 employees and a budget of more than $100 billion.
During his confirmation hearing this month, he stated that he would focus on improving highway safety and aviation.
Additionally, Duffy said he will help improve the air traffic controllers shortage and to help restore trust in Boeing among the public as it has been involved with several safety incidents in 2024.
He will also head the oversight of the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA).
Duffy, when asked during the hearing by Senator Ed Markey (D-Mass.), pledged to allow the NHTSA to “follow the evidence and operate objectively” in its probe of Tesla’s Full Self-Driving (FSD) software following a recall from October last year.
“Yes, I commit to this committee and to you that I will let NHTSA do their investigation,” he told Markey. “I think I also mentioned to you that a lot of the players in these spaces, I haven’t met any of them.”
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