
OAN Staff James Meyers
11:14 AM – Tuesday, January 28, 2025
The Senate has confirmed former GOP Representative Sean Duffy to become the next secretary of transportation.
President Donald Trump’s cabinet nominee was confirmed on Tuesday, after an overwhelming 77-22 vote. Nevertheless, Duffy was already anticipated to easily clear the voting threshold.
He was unanimously advanced by the Senate Commerce and the Science and Transportation Committee in a 28-0 vote last week — during a unanimous procedural vote on the Senate floor on 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, Duffy said that he would mostly focus on improving highway safety and aviation, among other duties. Additionally, Duffy promised to help improve the air traffic controller shortage.
He will also head the oversight of the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA).
Duffy, after being questioned 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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