Overview
- Buttigieg told CNN that Sean Duffy’s claim a road trip “fits any budget” ignores soaring gas and diesel prices, which he linked to the Iran war and Trump administration policy.
- He said financing the series through corporate sponsors is “nakedly unfair” because some sponsors are overseen by the Transportation Department.
- Duffy has promoted a five-part YouTube series, The Great American Road Trip, that follows seven months on the road with his wife Rachel Campos-Duffy and their nine children.
- Duffy has said taxpayers did not pay for production and that his family received no salary or royalties from the project.
- PoliticusUSA cast Duffy’s tenure as troubled, citing deadly mid-air collisions, long TSA lines, higher jet fuel costs, trucking strains, and the closure of Spirit Airlines.