Accomplishments
Under the leadership of Secretary Duffy and President Trump, the U.S. Department of Transportation is leading an ambitious effort to build big, beautiful things again. Safety, efficiency, and innovation are the building blocks of a new golden age of transportation. The Trump-Duffy agenda is delivering results at an unprecedented pace to unlock what’s possible beyond a new horizon.
- USDOT has begun to build an all-new, state-of-the-art air traffic control system thanks to the $12.5 billion Congress delivered in the One Big Beautiful Bill.
- USDOT launched a nationwide recruitment campaign for air traffic control. This effort has attracted nearly 1,000 top students into the rigorous FAA Academy including 600 in July alone.
- 1,500 drivers have been taken out of service after Secretary Duffy began to re-enforce English proficiency rules for truckers.
- Secretary Duffy and the FAA worked at lightning speed to upgraded Newark airport to improve safety and reliability - achieving the best on-time June departure rate ever.
- Read our release here.
- Secretary Duffy restored common sense rules to prevent wind turbines from jeopardizing transportation infrastructure.
- Read our release here.
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- Secretary Duffy inherited an unprecedented backlog of roughly 3,200 unobligated grants from the last administration. USDOT has stripped previous DEI and climate requirements from the grant process and has now cleared more than half of the Buttigieg-Biden backlog in the last six months. Secretary Duffy has obligated funding for nearly 2,000 projects worth roughly $20 billion since inauguration.
- USDOT terminated seven woke university grants totaling $54 million.
- Read our release here.
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- Secretary Duffy has saved taxpayers approximately 14 billion since inauguration in total.
- Secretary Duffy exposed California’s high-speed rail as a $135 billion dollar train to nowhere and pulled a $4 billion grant from the project.
- Secretary Duffy saved taxpayers $60 million by pulling funds for another high-speed rail boondoggle in Texas.
- Read our release here.
- Secretary Duffy saved taxpayers $26 million by cancelling a grant for the Baltimore-Washington Superconducting Magnetic Levitation (SCMAGLEV) Project.
- Read our release here.
- Secretary Duffy removed the scandal-plagued Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA) from leading the Penn Station Reconstruction project. This decision saved taxpayers $120 million.
- Read our release here.
- Secretary Duffy appointed Andy Byford to the Amtrak Board of Directors for the redevelopment of New York Penn Station.
- Read our release here.
- USDOT gave Texas more responsibility over environmental reviews under NEPA.
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- Secretary Duffy is reforming CAFE standards to eliminate Buttigieg’s backdoor EV mandate.
- Read our release here.
- Secretary Duffy promoted American energy dominance by moving forward with the PHMSA National Center of Excellence for Liquefied Natural Gas (LNG) Safety (the Center) in Lake Charles, La.
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Last updated: Thursday, August 7, 2025