Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy clapped back at criticism from Hillary Clinton who warned that DOGE shouldn’t meddle with the Federal Aviation Administration’s computer system.
‘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,’ Duffy told Clinton Wednesday via an X post.
He savaged her even more on Thursday claiming she was concerned about DOGE, the Elon Musk-led group, because they were uncovering her ‘family’s obscene grifting via USAID.’
On Wednesday Duffy announced ‘big news’ – that DOGE was going to ‘plug in to help upgrade our aviation system.’
That prompted a response from Clinton, President Donald Trump’s 2016 White House rival, who also served as first lady, senator and secretary of State.
‘They have no relevant experience,’ the Democrat remarked. ‘Most of them aren’t old enough to rent a car. And you’re going to let them mess with airline safety that’s already deteriorated on your watch?’
At that, Duffy, a former MTV Real World star and ex-congressman from Wisconsin, asked Clinton to ‘sit this one out.’
‘US airlines had gone 16 years without fatal crashes,’ she responded. ‘Then MAGA fired the FAA chief, gutted the Aviation Security Advisory Committee, and threatened air traffic controllers with layoffs.’
‘Now there have been two fatal crashes,’ she pointed out.
Last Wednesday an Army Black Hawk helicopter smashed into an American Airlines commuter jet as it was coming into land at Ronald Reagan National Washington Airport.
The crash killed everyone on board, with divers having to pull bodies from the Potomac River, just steps from all of Washington’s major monuments.
And then on Friday a medevac flight crashed in Northeast Philadelphia.
‘Hope your unvetted 22-year-olds fix things fast,’ Clinton replied.
That prompted an even nastier response from Duffy, who suggested that the Clintons were grifting taxpayer dollars from USAID, the aid agency that Musk has tried to shut down, prompting protests and calls for investigations.
DailyMail.com reached out to a longtime Clinton aide to respond to those allegations.
The Clintons, for years, have had a charitable arm, The Clinton Foundation, but it wasn’t immediately clear if there’s a financial link between the government agency and the former president and first lady.
Duffy also told the former secretary of state, ‘I won’t let you like 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,’ Duffy said.
Days before the deadly DCA crash employees at the Federal Aviation Administration were initially sent the ‘buyout’ offer but an official for the Office of Personnel Management told the Associated Press that air traffic controllers weren’t eligible.
They also weren’t subject to hiring freezes that are impacting much of the federal government.
Duffy also claimed that the Biden 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.’
Legislation backed by Biden steered taxpayer dollars to climate change protections but he also signed into law a massive bipartisan infrastructure bill.
‘I’m returning this department to its mission of safety by using innovative technology in transportation and infrastructure,’ Duffy said.
‘Your team had its chance and failed,’ he told Clinton. ‘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,’ Duffy added.
With that, Duffy’s 25-year-old daughter Evita Duffy-Alfonso chimed in.
‘Just a PSA: My dad would never commit suicide,’ she posted to X.
It was a reference to a conspiracy theory surrounding the death of Clinton White House aide Vince Foster, who died by suicide in 1993.
For years, political enemies of the Clintons have pushed that they had Foster murdered – of which there is no evidence.