'Why Do You Continue To Lie About This': Sean Duffy's Fieriest Congressional Grillings | 2025 Rewind
In 2025, Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy was grilled by Democratic lawmakers over DOT budgets, staffing cuts, and safetyย ...
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Search every verified Sean Duffy interview, podcast appearance, and on-the-record quote โ each transcript cross-checked by AI and human review to confirm speaker identity. During a House Transportation Committee hearing on May 20, 2026, Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy was questioned by Rep. Bonnie Watson Coleman (D-NJ) about the Department of Transportation's review of the Gateway rail project for civil rights violations. Duffy stated that the project sponsors have been cooperative and that the review is working through "finer details," adding that the matter has become "more of a litigation issue." He affirmed the project's importance, calling it "the largest project in the Western Hemisphere" and noting that the department had announced plans to rebuild Penn Station, which he said would not make sense without Gateway. Duffy attributed the review to a finding that the project's approach had used race or sex as the only factor, which he said the Supreme Court had ruled impermissible. In a Senate Appropriations Committee hearing on May 19, 2026, Duffy faced criticism from Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand (D-NY) over his "Great American Road Trip" promotion, which she argued was inappropriate amid rising gas prices. Duffy defended the initiative as an effort to encourage Americans to travel and unite the country, describing it as a two-day project officially part of America 250. During the same hearing, Duffy discussed infrastructure funding, noting that the American Society of Civil Engineers' 2025 report card gave U.S. infrastructure an overall C, which he said was "just above failing." He also addressed concerns about the proposed budget, stating that returning to 2021 funding levels would cost 344,000 jobs and $5 trillion in economic output, and that the administration had worked with states to cancel 28,000 illegally issued licenses for unqualified foreign drivers.
“I don't think safety is a partisan issue. Infrastructure is not partisan and so I'm committed to working in a bipartisan fashion to make sure we are looking at the best projects and the safest record.”
“Provided assistance simplifying the process to make sure that our tribes can access money that's available to them to make sure they can build their tribal infrastructure and roads โ it's an important part of the way I think about transportation and would welcome the chance to work with you on that.”
“I consider myself a huge champion of Buy America rules โ the straightforward idea that when you're using taxpayer dollars to build infrastructure, we should be employing American products and American workers and supporting American businesses.”
“I commit to following the law as passed by Congress and especially in regard to these issues [Buy America enforcement].”
In 2025, Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy was grilled by Democratic lawmakers over DOT budgets, staffing cuts, and safetyย ...
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