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Sean Duffy: “We live in New Jersey now because it's closer to the Fox…”

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

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Published August 13, 2025 | Video Starts at 35:31

It's really wonderful. And she isn't. So she is the rock star and superstar of our home. She makes it all happen even now with this job. So We live in New Jersey now because it's closer to the Fox studio. I'm down here five days a week. And in those first weeks, I was down here for like weeks on end. And she does Fox and Friends weekend. (35:31–35:36)

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Asserts that Sean Duffy and his family moved to New Jersey for proximity to the Fox studio.

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“There were 85 near misses in this airspace in the three years before this crash.”
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“It's going to cost us $31.5 billion to do it all.”
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“We have radar from the, from the, the. Somewhere in the 60s, a lot of them in the 70s, a couple from the 80s.”
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“The operating system that we use to control air traffic, one dates back to 95, another one was from 2000.”
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“We're 3,000 controllers short.”
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“Verizon laid a line between Philly and Newark in 30 days, that would have been a three-year project.”
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“We have ice on the moon.”
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“The International Space Station is going to come down in 2030, 2031.”
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“What [Elon Musk] has done with SpaceX and he's cut costs dramatically on what it takes to get satellites or people into space.”
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“We have closed off, restricted [DCA] airspace, so helicopters do not fly through that space unless it's the President, the Vice President, a…”
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“Tragedy struck, 67 people lost their lives.”
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“We've got 12 and a half billion dollars in the big beautiful bill that's going to help us start the process.”
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“The Biden Buttigieg administration moved what's called the tracon, which was in New York. They moved it down to Philadelphia.”
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“The problem was though that they didn't test the lines, they didn't make sure it was hardened before they made the move.”
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“We partnered with Verizon in a month, they laid a brand new fiber line for us.”
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“We need money from Congress to start the development of a new software system, a common automation platform.”
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“We've had a staffing issue that dates back to the last administration.”
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“Congress, this is historic that they gave us $12.5 billion.”
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“We are not going to fire air traffic controllers. Safety critical positions are not going to be fired within the Department of…”
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“Congress never said [Pete Buttigieg] had to [add DEI and green agenda requirements to grants]. He just did it himself.”
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“There were some proposals to rip out these freeways, to rip out roads because they were racist.”
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“He did change the name of Cockpit to Flight Deck because Cockpit is too offensive and too masculine.”
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“They lowered the standard from 85% to 80 to be best qualified [for air traffic controllers].”
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“They had a substantial washout rate, 30% plus [for air traffic controllers].”
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“We're getting the best scores in the academy first. And what we've done with that is we've lowered the washout rate.”
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“The problem around the number of air traffic controllers we have is it's going to take us time to see the fruits of our hard labor right…”
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“Some of the towers or tracons to work a lot of hours, and they're forced to work overtime.”
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“They have a retirement at 25 after 25 years of service.”
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“He loves to build. He's a builder, and he bought me as a developer and built skyscrapers and resorts and did it remarkably well.”
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“He cares about roads and bridges and, you know, what kind of pavement is being used.”
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“He cares about that part of our project. He also cares about the airspace.”
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“He knows that the problems that existed, he knew about them before even dca, before we started this mission.”
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“The federal and the state and the local response was wonderful.”
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“If we're making decisions on who gets into cockpits, we put our lives in their hands.”
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“I was one of, like, four members of Congress that were really aggressively supporting [Donald Trump in 2016].”
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“I have an issue right now that I'm dealing with Canada on and Mexico on, different than what [Trump is] dealing with Canada and Mexico on.”
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“I signed with CNN. I went to CNN. I signed a two year contract and only did a year of it.”
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“Fox treats liberals way better than CNN was treating conservatives at that time.”
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“I'm down here five days a week.”
Sean Duffy spills on Plane Crashes, "Racist" Roads, Moon Bases & Epic Musk Clash | Uploaded August 13, 2025 | 35:35-35:39
“She does Fox and Friends weekend. She does Noticias, which is a Spanish show, Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday.”
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“It was the first reality TV show in America.”
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“I was in the Boston version.”
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“Lisa Ling ended up getting the show.”
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“Elizabeth Hasselbeck got the seat.”
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“She sacrificed her career for my advancement.”
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“I resigned [from Congress]... I had been gone for nine years.”
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“She has consistently been supportive of [President Trump].”
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“Even after the 2020 election, [she] would revolve back to Trump.”
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“He was going to come back and be the president again.”
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“Everyone in America knows what the Apollo program was. We're going to go to the moon.”
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“No one knows what the Artemis program is. We want to go back to the moon. We want to set up a base there, keep people on the moon.”
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“The commercial space component in America, whether it's Blue Origin or SpaceX or there's a lot of others.”
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“You can't have each mission cost $5 billion.”
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“If we wait six, eight months for an administrator, they'll wait six or eight months to make decisions.”
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“Space is peace, but people can use it for nefarious purposes.”
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“Who controls space is going to control Earth.”
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