Donald Trump has nominated Sean Duffy, a former US congressman from the State of Wisconsin, and a TV co-host to serve as the Secretary of Transportation, leading the Department of Transportation (USDOT). He will replace the actual Secretary Pete Buttigieg.
“During the time in Congress, Sean Duffy advocated for fiscal responsibility, economic growth and rural development and worked with Democrat party to clear extensive legislative hurdles to build the largest road and bridge project in Minnesota history,” Trump says in a statement.
As a member of the House of Financial Services Committee, Sean Duffy helped shaping and strengthening economic policies and ensuring transparency and accountability in Government programmes, the statement says.
The nominated Secretary of Transportation will “prioritise excellence, competence and competitiveness when rebuilding America’s motorways, tunnels, bridges and airports. He will ensure that country’s ports and dams serve the economy without compromising the national security and will make skies safe again by eliminating DEI [diversity, equity, inclusion] for pilots and air traffic controllers.”
Sean Duffy will use his experience and relationships built over years in Congress to maintain and rebuild country’s infrastructure and fulfil the “mission of ushering the Golden Age of Travel” focusing on safety, efficiency and innovation.
“I’m eager to help you [Mr. President] usher in a new golden age of transportation,” Sean Duffy says on its X account.
He will oversee all policies the Department of Transportation (USDOT) will take in all transport modes – aviation, road, railways, transit systems. Under Biden’s Bipartisan Infrastructure Law, the total investment in the US transport system had a total budget of USD 110 billion. The legislation included USD 39 billion of new investment to modernise transit, in addition to continuing the existing transit programmes. In total, the investments provide USD 90 billion in guaranteed funding for public transit from 2021 to 2025.
USD 66 billion was the investment provided rail to eliminate the Amtrak maintenance backlog and NEC corridor improvement, while USD 7.5 billion was the investment to build country’s network of EV chargers.
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