Duffy’s most consequential recent act wasn’t a highway grant — it was silence. A New York Times investigation traced a $934 million transfer of funds, classified to obscure its purpose, out of the Sentinel nuclear modernization program — a project already 81% over budget — and into the retrofit of the Qatari-donated jet meant to replace Air Force One. Transportation touches directly on aviation security and the fleet this money went toward, and Duffy has offered no public accounting of how a transportation-adjacent asset came to be funded by cannibalizing America’s nuclear deterrent modernization budget. Meanwhile his department’s public messaging stays focused on ribbon-cuttings — FAA airport investments, transit grants for “family friendly” stations — while a genuinely alarming diversion of strategic defense funding toward a president’s personal luxury jet sits almost entirely unaddressed.