Sean Duffy

Sean Duffy is the Secretary of the Department of Transportation since Jan. 28, 2025. On July 9, President Trump selected Sec. Duffy to serve as the acting NASA administrator. Sec. Duffy previously served as the congressman from Wisconsin’s 7th District in the U.S. Congress for 10 years, serving on the House Financial Services Committee and actively leading on local transportation issues via his co-chairmanship of the Great Lakes Task Force. 

Prior to serving in Congress, Duffy was the district attorney of Ashland County, Wisconsin, for 10 years. There, he brought over 100 cases to trial with an over 90% trial success rate. After leaving Congress, Duffy hosted the Fox Business show, “The Bottom Line with Dagen and Duffy.”

Sec. Duffy was born and raised in Hayward, Wisconsin. As the 10th of 11 siblings in a large, Irish Catholic family, he learned the enduring value of cooperation and compromise. Sec. Duffy also comes from a long line of lumberjacks who helped build his beloved state of Wisconsin, and he was a world-champion lumberjack athlete. He holds a marketing degree from St. Mary’s University and a J.D. degree from William Mitchell College of Law.

When Sec. Duffy was in his 20s, he got his start in television on the MTV reality TV show, “The Real World.” He also starred on “Road Rules All Stars,” where he met his wife, Rachel Campos-Duffy. 

The couple is America’s first and longest-married reality TV couple. They have been married for 25 years and have nine children together.