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Sean Duffy: “The President... said, I think we can do it for 1.5 [billion…”

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

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The Conference: Transportation with Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy

Published | Video Starts at 01:21

And there's a lot of reporting on that. It just feels like there wasn't as much reporting when Donald Trump's energy dominance initiative brought prices … The President... said, I think we can do it for 1.5 [billion dollars]... Pierrotin called back and said they'd do it for $1.5 billion. … our radar, the Congress gave us 1.8 billion. We had three companies that we had to down select to two, and there we were at 1.3 billion. They came off. (01:21–17:38)

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Asserts that the cost of an aviation project was negotiated down to $1.5 billion, saving $200 million.

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