U.S. Sen. Tammy Baldwin
Press Release

Baldwin Votes to Confirm Former Rep. Sean Duffy as Transportation Secretary

 

By - Jan 28th, 2025 11:51 am

WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Senator Tammy Baldwin (D-WI) released a statement on her vote to confirm former Rep. Sean Duffy as Secretary of the Department of Transportation (DOT).

“Today, I voted to confirm former Rep. Sean Duffy as Secretary of Transportation because together, we can do right by Wisconsin families, businesses, and workers. As I’ve said before, it is critical that we have a Secretary of Transportation who understands Wisconsin’s transportation needs, and I have confidence, Sean is that guy. I have long fought to ensure our infrastructure is built with American products by American workers – and I will continue to press Sean to ensure that work continues. I am confident that we can work together to make sure Wisconsin families have safe roads and bridges and our businesses can get their products on shelves on time. Let’s get to work.”

Senator Baldwin spoke on the Senate floor in support of former Rep. Sean Duffy and also introduced him at the Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation hearing. During the hearing, Senator Baldwin also pressed former Rep. Sean Duffy on the incoming Trump Administration’s commitment to keeping in place her long-championed Buy America rules, which ensure taxpayer dollars spent on infrastructure are supporting American businesses and jobs.

NOTE: This press release was submitted to Urban Milwaukee and was not written by an Urban Milwaukee writer. While it is believed to be reliable, Urban Milwaukee does not guarantee its accuracy or completeness.

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Comments

  1. Duane says:

    Something I read in the Journal today about Duffy’s agenda highlights that we really need the Democrats to become an opposition party and not just a “go along to get along” party.

    “The amount of federal road funding Wisconsin receives in the coming years could change under a new order from Transportation Secretary and former Badger State congressman Sean Duffy that prioritizes areas of the country with higher birth rates.Duffy released a series of orders Wednesday “to rescind woke policies, roll back burdensome and costly regulations, restore economic growth” and ensure the federal transportation department aligns with President Donald Trump’s priorities, he said in a statement.

    “The American people deserve an efficient, safe, and pro-growth transportation system based on sound decision-making, not political ideologies. These actions will help us deliver on that promise,” Duffy said.

    Among the orders was one directing federal DOT officials to give preference to “communities with marriage and birth rates higher than the national average” when awarding grants and contracts in order to make it easier for families with young children to access transportation and mitigate negative effects of transportation projects on families”.

    WTF!

  2. Duane says:

    Baldwin made a huge mistake in voting to confirm Sean Duffy. Who cares if he is from friggin WI? Now, as the acting Administrative head of NASA, they might be working on destroying 2 satellites that provide valuable info on carbon emissions.

    (from an NPR report)

    “For the past month, the Trump administration, via NASA’s Acting Administrator Sean Duffy, has been directing NASA employees to implement workforce adjustments and plan for the shutdown of dozens of missions and programs slated for cuts under in the President’s Budget Request to NASA. Doing so ahead of a Congressionally-approved budget for fiscal year 2026 (FY26) is tantamount to illegal impoundment of federal funds appropriated for the current fiscal year (FY25), according to an 18 July letter to Duffy signed by 64 members of Congress.

    Now, despite warnings that their actions are illegal, NPR reports that Duffy and other senior NASA officials have continued to secretly direct NASA employees to draw up plans to end at least two major satellite missions specifically designed to monitor global carbon dioxide. Orbiting Carbon Observatory (OCO)-2, a free-orbiting satellite, and OCO-3, which is attached to the International Space Station, are slated for defunding in the 2026 President’s Budget Request (PBR).

    David Crisp, a retired NASA atmospheric physicist who was the principal investigator of the original OCO mission and was OCO-2’s science team leader, told NPR that he was contacted by several NASA employees who asked him pointed questions about the satellites that added up to mission termination plans.
    “What I have heard is direct communications from people who were making those plans, who weren’t allowed to tell me that that’s what they were told to do. But they were allowed to ask me questions,” Crisp said. “They were asking me very sharp questions. The only thing that would have motivated those questions was [that] somebody told them to come up with a termination plan.”
    “Just from an economic standpoint, it makes no economic sense to terminate NASA missions that are returning incredibly valuable data,” Crisp said.

  3. Matt K says:

    Three words, Tammy. SHUT IT DOWN

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