Politics Updated on Dec 18, 2025 7:33 PM EST — Published on Dec 17, 2025 10:16 AM EST Correction: A previous headline suggested Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy ...

Sean Duffy, U.S. secretary of transportation, during a news conference in Washington, D.C., on June 12, 2025. Sean Duffy, U.S. secretary of transportation, during a ...

Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy predicted that delays and cancellations of flights “will live on” beyond when the government shutdown ends. Duffy appeared on CNN’s State of the Union on Sunday, on ...

Duffy has warned about the effects of the government shutdown on air travel in the United States since the first days of the funding cliff. The Department of Transportation has flagged the effects of ...

Travelers across the country scrambled to make it to their destinations as thousands of flights were delayed or canceled on Sunday, the third day of government-mandated flight cuts during the ongoing ...

NASA has found itself without a full-time administrator since Bill Nelson stepped down on Jan. 20, the day of Trump's inauguration. Duffy's appointment also comes after billionaire Jared Isaacman's ...

Some Trump administration officials, including at the White House, have expressed frustration with Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy in recent weeks as internal wrangling over who will lead NASA ...

Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy on Thursday said he would fire air traffic controllers who are skipping work because of the government shutdown. “If we have a continual small subset of controllers ...

Secretary of Transportation Sean Duffy and then-acting administrator of NASA Janet Petro at NASA Headquarters monitoring the return of the Crew-9 mission in March. Credit: NASA/Bill Ingalls WASHINGTON ...

Duffy, 53, was confirmed Jan. 28 by the Senate as U.S. transportation secretary. While NASA's official headquarters is in D.C., most of the agency's space program has operations in Florida's Cape.