By Mark Walker | The New York Times
A former Wisconsin congressman and Fox Business host, Sean Duffy, was selected by President-elect Donald J. Trump on Monday to lead the Transportation Department.
In a statement announcing his choice, Mr. Trump praised Mr. Duffy as a “tremendous and well-liked public servant” with the experience needed to lead the department, which has an annual budget of more than $100 billion and a vast work force.
“Sean will use his experience and the relationships he has built over many years in Congress to rebuild our nation’s infrastructure and usher in a golden age of travel,” Mr. Trump said in a statement.
Mr. Duffy served in Congress from 2011 to 2019 as a Republican. He resigned in September 2019 to help care for a newborn daughter with a birth defect, according to The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel.
Mr. Duffy departed Fox News Media on Monday, according to a spokeswoman for the network. He had joined as a contributor in 2020, offering political analysis across all Fox News Media platforms, and had hosted “The Bottom Line” on Fox Business with Dagen McDowell since 2023. He is not Mr. Trump’s only cabinet choice to come from Fox: Pete Hegseth, his pick for defense secretary, is a host on “Fox & Friends.”
Mr. Duffy originally rose to fame in the late 1990s on the MTV reality show “The Real World: Boston.” He also appeared on its sister show, “Road Rules: All Stars,” where he met his wife, Rachel Campos-Duffy, who is now a Fox News host herself.
