Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy will testify before a Senate Appropriations subcommittee on Thursday morning about the department's fiscal 2026 budget request. CLICK HERE TO READ MORE FROM THE WASHINGTON EXAMINER The hearing is taking place at 10 a.

Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy admitted Wednesday that he changed his wife’s flight reservation to avoid making her take off from Newark Liberty International Airport — just hours after claiming the troubled New Jersey hub was safe for the public.

At a House Appropriations Committee meeting yesterday regarding the Department of Transportation’s fiscal budget for 2026, Rep. Bonnie Watson Coleman (D-N.J.) referenced Duffy’s comments. She suggested that Duffy “diverted [his] wife from Newark airport to LaGuardia out of a sense of security.”