Sean Duffy Says Feds Won’t Invest If Cities ‘Don’t Clean Up’ Act, Slams One Particular Governor Over Failed Transit

Secretary of Transportation Sean Duffy appeared on Fox News Friday and said his department won’t invest in cities that “don’t clean up” their public transportation systems, specifically calling out Democratic New York Gov. Kathy Hochul over the state’s failing subway network.

New York officials have attempted to crack down on subway crime by increasing their police presence as of April 2024, following a series of shootings and assaults in the transit system. On “The Ingraham Angle,” host Laura Ingraham asked Duffy what the “truth” was behind the issue after noting how Democratic Mayor Eric Adams said there was a decrease in crime.

“So the truth is, transit across America is dangerous, right? These liberal mayors, they want everyone out of cars and into trains. But they make the trains unsafe, so no one really wants to ride them,” Duffy said. “Listen, I know a lot of people in New York who, they’re OK riding transit or the subway during the day, but if it’s in the morning or if it’s at night, even big men don’t want to ride the subway at those times of night.”

“The mayor has indicated they’ve made some progress. I’ve got other stats that’ll say they haven’t, but the mayor has sent more law enforcement officers into the subway system. But this is really a failure of the governor of New York,” Duffy added.

On Friday, Adams took Duffy onto New York City’s public transportation system, with NYPD Transit Chief Joseph Gulotta saying that subway crime had hit historic lows thanks to the increased police presence, according