The Latest Breaking News from Sean Duffy

The recent all-women spaceflight carried out on Jeff Bezos’s Blue Origin vehicle has raised discussion of who gets to be called an astronaut. Sean Duffy, Donald Trump’s transportation secretary, disputed the astronaut title given to those on the flight, including singer Katy Perry and journalist Gayle King.

Sean Duffy says current infrastructure related to air traffic control is too outdated

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The federal prosecutor’s office in Manhattan on Wednesday accidentally filed an internal memo that poked holes in the Trump administration’s strategy to kill New York’s $9 congestion toll in Manhattan

Transportation secretary warns of ‘serious consequences’ if Kathy Hochul does not shutter initiative by 21 May

Manhattan’s congestion toll remains in effect, despite an Easter deadline from President Donald Trump’s administration to halt the first-in-the-nation fee

‘President Trump has made it clear: the days of reckless spending and blank checks are over,’ the transportation said, in a jab to the Metropolitan Transportation Authority

President Donald Trump’s transportation chief says the administration would take control of the $7 billion reconstruction project for New York City’s busy but aging Penn Station, sidelining the city’s mass transit agency

The budget for the project has quadrupled, and private property owners have opposed the use of eminent domain along the proposed 240-mile route.