@SecDuffy - Secretary Sean Duffy
This beautiful girl, Dalilah Coleman, is left with life-altering injuries after a criminal illegal immigrant caused a wreck while operating a truck he should NEVER have had a license to drive. California’s weak leadership is failing Americans like Dalilah every day. My prayers are with her and her family.
@SecDuffy - Secretary Sean Duffy
This beautiful girl, Dalilah Coleman, is left with life-altering injuries after a criminal illegal immigrant caused a wreck while operating a truck he should NEVER have had a license to drive. California’s weak leadership is failing Americans like Dalilah every day. My prayers are with her and her family.
@SecDuffy - Secretary Sean Duffy
Heartbreaking images coming out of Kentucky tonight. Here’s an update from @FAANews - UPS cargo flight 2976 - Crashed around 5:15 ET after takeoff from Louisville Muhammad Ali International Airport en route to Honolulu - The aircraft was a McDonnell Douglas MD-11. Please join me in prayer for the Louisville community and flight crew impacted by this horrific crash. The @NTSB and @FAANews are mobilizing to get on the ground and will lead the investigation.
@SecDuffy - Secretary Sean Duffy
This is exactly why @USDOT has withheld $40 MILLION from California for failure to comply with our rules to protect drivers. We cannot allow our roads to be a dangerous place!
@SecDuffy - Secretary Sean Duffy
Any employee caught celebrating the assassination of Charlie Kirk will be held accountable. We’ve referred this to @DDOTDC. @USDOT won’t tolerate our employees celebrating political violence.
@SecDuffy - Secretary Sean Duffy
This cannot happen again. .@FMCSA is launching an investigation into both the driver and White Hawk Carrier. Here’s what we know: 1. Washington State improperly issued the driver a full-term CDL. Asylum seekers or illegal aliens are NOT allowed to receive this! 2. New Mexico failed to conduct an English Language Proficiency test when they pulled the driver over for speeding. Had they done this, the driver would not have been on the road! 3. We are also looking into California’s issuance of the driver’s CDL. States MUST FOLLOW THE RULES. If they had, this driver would NEVER have been behind the wheel and three precious lives would still be with us. The failures here are despicable. Non-enforcement and radical immigration policies have turned the trucking industry into a lawless frontier, resulting in unqualified foreign drivers improperly acquiring licenses to operate 40-ton vehicles. @POTUS and I moved quickly to require drivers to speak English – our national language – and launch a full-scale audit of how these licenses are doled out. And all of this is just the tip of the iceberg. We’ll have more updates to share soon.
@SecDuffy - Secretary Sean Duffy
@SecDuffy - Secretary Sean Duffy
Taxpayers expect their dollars to fund safe streets, not rainbow crosswalks. Political banners have no place on public roads. I’m reminding recipients of @USDOT roadway funding that it’s limited to features advancing safety, and nothing else. It’s that simple.
@SecDuffy - Secretary Sean Duffy
@SecDuffy - Secretary Sean Duffy
The @USDOT will NOT fund rogue state actors who refuse to cooperate with federal immigration enforcement. And to cities that stand by while rioters destroy transportation infrastructure — don’t expect a red cent from DOT, either. Follow the law, or forfeit the funding.
@SecDuffy - Secretary Sean Duffy
Pete Buttigieg’s PR tour is a joke! Within 2 years of him signing a 15-year contract, that has not been used to lay any fiber, we are having massive outages in the busiest airspace. He increased the air traffic controller shortage to pre-COVID levels. But when he left office the FAA was still short 3K air traffic controllers. He didn’t do anything to fix the root causes of this dangerous shortage. He was busy renaming cockpit to “flight deck” & finding racist roads. More concerned with equity & social justice than innovation & safety. President Trump and I are determined to FIX the problem. Stay tuned on Thursday for the biggest and most important announcement in DOT history! #FixTheSystem
@SecDuffy - Secretary Sean Duffy
There's a growing media narrative that there are more airplane crashes now in Trump's presidency than under Biden. This is false. Here are the facts: In Biden's first month, there were 57 aviation incidents in the U.S., compared to 35 under Trump. The need for immediate improvement to our safety infrastructure is long overdue. The tragic American Airlines crash was a heartbreaking wake-up call that improvements must be made. This is why I've enlisted the brightest minds, including SpaceX engineers, to help upgrade our aviation system. I am fully committed to transportation excellence, as well as transparency and honesty with the public.
@SecDuffy - Secretary Sean Duffy
America deserves safe, state-of-the-art air travel, and President Trump has ordered that I deliver a new, world-class air traffic control system that will be the envy of the world. To do that, I need advice from the brightest minds in America. I’m asking for help from any high-tech American developer or company that is willing to give back to our country. Tomorrow, members of @elonmusk’s SpaceX team will be visiting the Air Traffic Control System Command Center in VA to get a firsthand look at the current system, learn what air traffic controllers like and dislike about their current tools, and envision how we can make a new, better, modern and safer system. Because I know the media (and Hillary Clinton) will claim Elon’s team is getting special access, let me make clear that the @FAANews regularly gives tours of the command center to both media and companies. Later in the week, I will travel to the FAA Academy in Oklahoma to meet with air traffic controller instructors and students to learn more about their education and how we can ensure that only the very best guide our aircrafts. My door at @USDOT is open to any and all patriotic developers or companies who want to help our country in this incredible, game-changing mission. I hope to hear from any company committed to ushering in America’s golden age of travel!
@SecDuffy - Secretary Sean Duffy
I know you’re lashing out because DOGE is uncovering your family’s obscene grifting via USAID, but I won’t let you lie and distort facts. The FAA administrator announced he resigned over a month before Trump took office, and the air traffic controllers were always exempt from Trump’s civil service buyouts. The previous administration shamelessly used USDOT as a slush fund for the Green New Scam, throwing away money and resources on wasteful environmental and social justice projects rather than updating our nation’s antiquated air traffic control systems and other critical infrastructure. I’m returning this department to its mission of safety by using innovative technology in transportation and infrastructure. Your team had its chance and failed. We’re moving on without you because the American people want us to make America’s transportation system great again. And yes, we’re bringing the 22-year-olds with us.
@SecDuffy - Secretary Sean Duffy
Madam Secretary, with all due respect, “experienced” Washington bureaucrats are the reason our nation’s infrastructure is crumbling. You need to sit this one out. https://t.co/6IhE5xLxV8
@SecDuffy - Secretary Sean Duffy
Effective immediately, the Department of Transportation will no longer participate in celebrations based on immutable traits or any other identity-based observances. These distractions do nothing to keep planes in the air, trains on the tracks, or ports and highways secure. In the wake of two devastating plane crashes, my focus is singular: enforcing the highest standards of safety and accountability. From now on, everyday of every month we celebrate transportation, beautiful infrastructure, and safety.