“Where Is Secretary Duffy?” That’s the question circulating on social media as the nation’s air transportation system unravels—plagued by mounting failures under the Trump administration and its Transportation Secretary, Sean Duffy.

“There have been 37 deadly aviation crashes in the United States in 2025,” a report from a Fox affiliate in Texas, KDFW, found last month. “Before 2025, the most recent deadly plane crash involving a U.S. airliner was in 2009. At least 143 people have died in the 2025 aviation crashes.”

An NCRM review of the National Transportation Safety Board database found that from January 20, 2025—the start of the Trump administration—through May 6, there were at least 146 aviation fatalities in the U.S., nearly double the 74 fatalities recorded by the NTSB during the same period under the first months of the Biden administration.

Add to that the current disaster at Newark Liberty International Airport, one of the busiest airports in the U.S., serving New York City and New Jersey. Travelers have been experiencing massive delays for well over a week, while the Transportation Secretary has appeared on Fox News, posted a photo celebrating Cinco de Mayo, and attacks his predecessor for—he claims—doing nothing to improve the nation’s aging air traffic computer systems.

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Author and activist Shannon Watts was one of many who responded to Secretary Duffy’s Cinco de Mayo celebration:

Newark air traffic controller, “It is not safe. It is not a safe situation right now for the flying public. Don’t fly into Newark. Avoid Newark at all costs.”

The Secretary of Transportation: I ❤️ tacos. https://t.co/Ttbq1xJnVF

— Shannon Watts (@shannonrwatts) May 4, 2025

The Wall Street Journal’s editorial board on Monday evening decried “America’s Air Traffic Fiasco.”

“President Trump wants to reorder the global trading system, but how about fixing America’s air traffic mess?” the WSJ asked.

All this comes as the Trump administration has cut Federal Administration Agency employees.

The Guardian in February reported that the Trump administration had “begun firing hundreds of employees at the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA), including some who maintain critical air traffic control infrastructure, despite four deadly crashes since inauguration day.”

“The firings at the FAA do not include air traffic controllers, but did appear to include engineers and technicians.

And an Associated Press report headline at US News & World Report at the end of January read:

“Air Traffic Controllers Were Initially Offered Buyouts and Told to Consider Leaving Government”
“Just a day before a deadly midair collision at Reagan National Airport”

The union for the air traffic controllers advised its members to not take the buyout, and it is unclear that air traffic controllers were eligible, even if they did receive the offer.

But Secretary Duffy is blaming the Biden administration.

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“It’s no secret our air traffic control system is antiquated,” Secretary Duffy claimed on Monday night. “The last administration didn’t lift a finger to fix it. We’re working day and night to overhaul it.”

Secretary Duffy “said Thursday the FAA is on track to hire 2,000 new air traffic controllers this year,” Business Insider reported. “His plan also includes monetary incentives of up to $10,000 for academy graduates who are assigned to ‘hard-to-staff’ air traffic facilities. The proposal would also provide financial incentives to staff, reward academy graduates, and expand the number of instructors.”

Tom Bonier, a veteran Democratic political strategist, on Monday asked: “Remember when Sean Duffy tried to convince us that DEI was the problem? Yet, here we are, >100 days in… explain to me how DEI resulted in air traffic in one of the country’s busiest airspaces going without monitoring for some undisclosed amount of time.”

Christina Henderson, a Member of the Council of the District of Columbia, wrote, “I’m trying to understand why Sean Duffy isn’t getting more smoke from Congress. If Buttigieg was still Secretary there would’ve been endless hearings and calls for his resignation. Yes, FAA has always had staffing shortages, but it feels like the wheels are falling off now.”

Political commentator Brian Tyler Cohen, responding to a CBS Evening News report, asked, “Where is @SecDuffy and how is this level of incompetence possible in such a short amount of time?”

CBS News on Monday reported that “For the eighth straight day, massive disruptions at Newark Liberty Airport, there have been thousands of delays, some hitting nearly five hours. More than 800 flights have been canceled in the last week at the nation’s 12th busiest airport.”

“Monday’s bad weather complicated an air traffic control staffing nightmare that started last Monday after a number of system outages controller screens essentially went dark for up to 90 seconds, losing the ability to track aircraft at a key facility handling traffic in and out of Newark. It was a breaking point for about a half dozen controllers who requested trauma leave due to the working conditions, allowing them to essentially be off the job for up to 45 days.”

Newark Liberty Airport continues to face massive disruptions, with over 800 flight cancellations and delays of up to five hours due to staffing issues and air traffic control system failures. U.S. Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy warns similar delays could spread nationwide… pic.twitter.com/rCkLVxu1iX

— CBS Evening News (@CBSEveningNews) May 5, 2025

Secretary Duffy is under fire even at Fox News, where he appeared on Monday above a chyron that read: “Accidents and Close-Calls Unnerve Public.”

Telling Fox News’ Laura Ingraham, “we are going to radically transform air traffic control,” Duffy focused on the aging computer technology.

The President and I are going to radically transform air traffic control. That means building a brand new system that is the envy of the world.

Stay tuned! pic.twitter.com/wlhQDbMMMY

— Secretary Sean Duffy (@SecDuffy) May 6, 2025

“We have really old infrastructure in America,” Duffy said. “It hasn’t been updated in the last 30, 40 years. This should have been dealt with in the last administration—they did nothing.”

But Duffy’s claim doesn’t hold up: Under President Joe Biden, Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg invested tens of millions of dollars annually to repair aging airport infrastructure nationwide. Additionally, Donald Trump was President for four of the years Duffy cited, making his attempt to shift blame even more questionable.

And in October 2024, Secretary Buttigieg wrote: “The FAA has worked to reverse decades of reduced air traffic control staffing levels—and set an aggressive goal to hire 1,800 controllers this year. I’m proud that they have exceeded their hiring goal, and we have opened another hiring window.”

Duffy also told Ingraham, “when you have an incident like this, you want to make sure that people are safe, and so you just have less departures out of the airport until we feel comfortable and safe that the system isn’t gonna go down again.”

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U.S. Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, one of President Donald Trump’s most vocal and loyal allies, has for weeks been eyeing a Senate run aimed at unseating freshman Democratic Senator Jon Ossoff—one of the GOP’s top 2026 targets.

On Monday, that Senate run became far more viable for the Georgia GOP congresswoman, as the top potential Republican candidate, Governor Brian Kemp, reportedly has decided to not run.

The right-wing Daily Caller website had reported that Greene was “seriously considering a run for Senate in 2026,” and reportedly “believes she would ‘crush’ the GOP primary contest if the governor were to pass on the contest.”

Politico on Monday reported that Governor Kemp “will not run for Senate in 2026, according to three people familiar with his decision.”

And despite Greene being a “divisive” candidate, Politico noted that “Ossoff is still likely to face a difficult race in a historically conservative state that President Donald Trump carried last November.”

It appears Greene has wasted no time fundraising—and no time attacking Ossoff.

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In an email to supporters, Greene called the award-winning Senator Ossoff a “Radical Transgender Activist.” She has been attacking the transgender community for years.

She also attacked the “globalist billionaires.” As The Forward’s senior political reporter Jacob N. Kornbluh notes, Ossoff is Jewish.

Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene targets “the globalist billionaires” in a fundraising email about her potential run against Sen. Jon Ossoff, who is Jewish. pic.twitter.com/H0P98ZJfyU

— Jacob N. Kornbluh (@jacobkornbluh) May 5, 2025

Politico’s Meredith Lee Hill added that in addition to Greene, there are at least five other potential GOP candidates, including Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger.

Earlier on Monday, Greene warned that Republicans are on track to “lose the midterms,” as Raw Story reported.

Punchbowl News’ Mica Soellner late Monday afternoon added that Democratic House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries appears to see Greene as the GOP’s candidate to run against Ossoff.

“Why is the Republican Party stuck with Marjorie Taylor Greene as their candidate for the United States Senate seat in Georgia? … because Donald Trump and House Republicans are on the run,” he reportedly said.

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Many Republican members of Congress are now backing President Donald Trump’s reversal of his 2024 campaign promise to lower consumer prices “on day one,” embracing instead a new era of “shared sacrifice” as his global tariff war drives up costs and threatens the availability—and affordability—of goods.

U.S. Rep. David Joyce (R-OH) is facing criticism for going all-in on promoting Trump’s tariffs and the administration’s claim that “shared sacrifice” is necessary to move the U.S. economy to one centered on manufacturing.

“The president who had promised in his inaugural address that ‘the Golden Age of America begins right now’ was all of a sudden suggesting that ‘there will be a little disturbance, but we’re OK with that,'” wrote Politico magazine‘s Jeff Greenfield last month. “Trump’s economic team also chimed in; his Treasury secretary said the economy might need a ‘detox’ period, while his billionaire Commerce secretary said a recession would be ‘worth it’ (and also that his mother-in-law would not mind missing her Social Security check).”

On Monday, Congressman Joyce told CNN (video below), “you know, look, anybody who’s ever chased the one of these dolls, the American Girl doll or the chubby ones that were a big one, in my —”

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“Cabbage Patch Kids,” Dana Bash offered.

“Yes, yes, thank you, Cabbage Patch—when my kids were little—know what an important Christmas event that is,” Joyce explained. “But obviously, you know, this doesn’t stop and start overnight. And so the idea that the Christmas trade is already starting to slow down the progress, and there might be less around, I get it. I think American people will understand that, because American people understand shared sacrifice.”

“But what needs to be explained to them is that China has been eating our lunch.”

“If you ever go back and look after World War II, they’ve slowly but surely stolen all of our steel industry by undercutting us. Spring wire, everything they’ve done, they’ve stolen our technology that’s gone over.”

He described China as “the enemy.”

Critics are blasting Ohio Republican.

“Shared sacrifice?” asked investment banker Evaristus Odinikaeze. “Trump hoards luxury golf clubs while telling kids they don’t need dolls. This isn’t wartime rationing, it’s economic mismanagement and manufactured austerity dressed up as discipline. Don’t gaslight families struggling to afford basic joys. This is unconscionable!”

“WE AREN’T AT WAR!” declared veteran activist and podcaster Fred Wellman. “This is all self inflicted.”

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Entrepreneur and community activist Ann Yarko Orner wrote: “I was told for years that the government telling us what we could and could not have was tyranny by the Republican Party. One of the reasons, I joined the party. Now Republicans sound like Communists. Reagan would be appalled.”

Dawn Smart, CEO of Doré Designs, wrote: “When the bread lines start (Russia during 70’s and 80’s) they will be telling us it’s shared sacrifice again. Never let MAGA call the Dems communists again because what we have happening right now is communism. Unless we act soon, our lives will be very different.”

Watch the video below or at this link.

Rep. David Joyce on Trump saying girls should have fewer dolls: “The idea that the Christmas trade is already starting to slow down and there might be less around, I get it. I think the American people will understand that because the American people understand shared sacrifice.” pic.twitter.com/mnKPwkuvYo

— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) May 5, 2025

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