President-elect Donald Trump has tapped a Fox Business co-host to be the nation's next Transportation Secretary, according to reports.
Trump said Monday he is nominating former Rep. Sean Duffy (R-WI) to head the agency.
Duffy notably gained fame as a cast member on MTV's "The Real World: Boston" in 1997 and appeared on "Road Rules: All Stars" the following year. He has also served as an ESPN color commentator and currently co-hosts "The Bottom Line" on Fox Business and is a frequent Fox News contributor. He is also married to Rachel Campos-Duffy, whom Trump called "a STAR on Fox News.”
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Duffy has also worked as a special prosecutor and Ashland County district attorney before being elected to Congress as a Tea Party candidate in 2010. He resigned from Congress nine years later to care for his newborn daughter who has a heart condition.
Trump called Duffy a "tremendous and well-liked public servant" who was a "respected voice and communicator in the Republican Conference," and who has advocated for fiscal responsibility, economic growth and rural development.
Duffy has previously said Trump had the authority to take ownership of any government document by declaring it unclassified.
"The view of the FBI and DOJ seeing evidence of crime is very broad," he argued in 2022. "I mean, the fact that they went and took top secret classified documents. By the way, remember Hillary Clinton had classified documents on her server that weren't marked classified."
Trump also picked Fox & Friends co-host Pete Hegseth to become the next Pentagon chief.
