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Sean Duffy: “Our whole economy comes through the Department of…”

Featuring: Sean Duffy, Republican | Secretary of Transportation | National

The World Over March 20, 2025 Full Episode Sec. Sean Duffy, Kansas Re-Consecration, Francis Photo

Published March 20, 2025 | Video Starts at 22:26

How people move, how fast they get home to their loved ones, how safely they travel, how quickly they get their products. Our whole economy comes through the Department of Transportation. And to be in a place that can make it better for people is remarkable. And so my kids have been incredibly supportive. (22:26–22:30)

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Asserts that the entire economy is influenced by the Department of Transportation.

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“We're using AI tools to analyze the data and see other hotspots in the country to make sure that we don't miss anything.”
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“Air travel is the safest mode of transportation.”
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“The most dangerous part of your travel is from your home to the airport, not, you know, from the airplane from destination A to destination…”
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“This is 25 and 30 years old. Let's fix it. Let's fix the system before we lose lives because we have such an old system.”
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“There was a DEI effort under the Obama era. The Congress saw that. They snuffed it out.”
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“We're going to do an investigation to give us the information about are we actually getting the best and the brightest, or is there other…”
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“Over Covid, [Boeing] lost a lot of great, experienced people who did the manufacturing.”
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“There are blackout zones around airports [for drones].”
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“The FAA allows drones to fly, they're going to fly in areas where it's safe.”
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“We want to make sure that [drones are] fully tested and they're going to be safe.”
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“Everybody, Democrat or Republican, they want roads and bridges.”
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“There was a ton of green requirements and social justice requirements [in infrastructure projects].”
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“It drives up the cost of the projects, which means I get less roads and bridges.”
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“We're the Department of Transportation. We're not the Green New Deal Department. We're not the Social Justice Department.”
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“The federal government gives millions of dollars a year to New York for their subway system.”
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“Crime incidents are 56% higher now than it was in 2019 [in New York subways].”
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“There's 45,000 plus employees at the FAA.”
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“We laid off temporary, not temporary, but employees who had been there for less than a year. That's 0.8% of workforce.”
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“We need more air traffic controllers. Right. There's not enough of them.”
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