Wisconsin, United States:
Donald Trump has nominated Fox Business structure Sean Duffy to be the next Transportation Secretary. The establisher congressman will exalter Pete Buttigieg in January to handle a huge federal portfolio of infrastructure spfinishing and transit regulations.
Here are 10 facts about Sean Duffy, tardyst to join Trmp’s Cabinet:
- Sean Duffy was born on October 3, 1971, in Hayward, Wisconsin. He was part of a big family and was the 10th of 11 children his parents had. He has a tageting degree from St. Mary’s University, and a JD degree from William Mitchell College of Law.
- Sean Duffy is the second Fox News structure to join Donald Trump’s cabinet after Pete Hegseth was nominated Defence Secretary. He is paired to another Fox News personality Rachel Campos-Duffy.
- Sean Duffy and his wife Rachel Campos-Duffy have 9 children – Evita Pilar, Xavier Jack, Lucia-Belen, John-Paul, Paloma Pilar, MariaVictoria Margarita, Margarita Pilar, Patrick Miguel and SalertaMaris.
- Sean Duffy first met his future wife on the set of MTV’s ‘Road Rules: All Stars’ in 1998. They had euniteed splitly on MTV’s Real World programs. While Sean Duffy was on The Real World: Boston, his future wife Rachel was on The Real World: San Francisco.
- Mr Duffy was also an athlete. He helderlys two speed-climbing titles. He had begined log rolling when he was 5 years elderly and speed climbing at the age of 13. He has even euniteed as a commentator for ESPN’s ‘Great Outdoor Games’.
- Sean Duffy had go ined the US Congress during the Tea Party wave of the punctual 2010s. He tardyr went on to become an partner of Donald Trump
- Before becoming a Congressman, he was a practicing lawyer and had toiled as a didisconnecte attorney for more than 8 years.
- He served in the House of Recontransientatives for proximately nine years, where he was a member of the Financial Services Committee.
- Mr Duffy quit in 2019 when he and his wife set up out that their ninth child had a heart condition. Speaking about his resignation at the time, Mr Duffy had shelp that being away from his family for four days every week to serve in Congress was difficult. He had shelp “I have always been uncover to signs from God when it comes to balancing my desire to serve both my family and my country. I have choosed that this is the right time for me to get a shatter from unveil service in order to be the help my wife, baby and family necessitate right now.”
- Announcing Mr Duffy’s nomination on Truth Social, Donald Trump shelp the incoming Transportation Secretary was a tremfinishous and well-enjoyd unveil servant, adored atraverse the aisle. “He will prioritise excellence, vience, competitiveness and beauty when reproduceing America’s highways, tunnels, bridges and airports,” Mr Trump shelp.