section_path: Secretary of Transportation (2025 – present)/Nomination and confirmation
section_name: Nomination and confirmation
paragraph_text: Nomination and confirmation
  
  On November 18, 2024, President-elect Donald Trump named Duffy as his nominee for Secretary of Transportation in his second presidency. During his hearing on January 15, 2025, he stated that if confirmed, his first trip as Secretary of Transportation would be to the Appalachian mountain regions of Tennessee and North Carolina, where flooding from Hurricane Helene damaged major interstate highways along with countless smaller roads and bridges. He traveled to western North Carolina February 10, 2025.
  
  The Senate Committee on Commerce, Science and Transportation approved his nomination in a 28–0 vote on January 22 and the U.S. Senate confirmed his nomination in a 77–22 vote on January 28. Some Democrats changed positions on his nomination, citing the Trump administration's ongoing federal spending freeze.
  
  On November 18, 2024, President-elect Donald Trump named Duffy as his nominee for Secretary of Transportation in his second presidency. During his hearing on January 15, 2025, he stated that if confirmed, his first trip as Secretary of Transportation would be to the Appalachian mountain regions of Tennessee and North Carolina, where flooding from Hurricane Helene damaged major interstate highways along with countless smaller roads and bridges. He traveled to western North Carolina February 10, 2025.
  
  The Senate Committee on Commerce, Science and Transportation approved his nomination in a 28–0 vote on January 22 and the U.S. Senate confirmed his nomination in a 77–22 vote on January 28. Some Democrats changed positions on his nomination, citing the Trump administration's ongoing federal spending freeze.