Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy has made some bold and dubious proposals on the job, and it appears his daughter is following in his footsteps.
On Thursday, Evita Duffy-Alfonso, Duffy’s 26-year-old daughter with Fox News personality Rachel Campos-Duffy, posted on social media that if her father ran the Transportation Security Administration, he’d “radically limit it and lobby Congress to abolish it.”
She made the comment after a long post on X in which she chastised the TSA for making her “wait 15 minutes for a pat-down because I’m pregnant and didn’t feel like getting radiation exposure from their body scanner.”
She continued, “The agents were passive-aggressive, rude, and tried to pressure me and another pregnant woman into just walking through the scanner because it’s ‘safe.’ After finally getting the absurdly invasive pat-down, I barely made my flight. All this for an unconstitutional agency that isn’t even good at its job.”
Duffy-Alfonso suggested “things would have gone more smoothly if I’d handed over my biometric data to a random private company (CLEAR),” because she could then “enjoy the special privilege of waiting in a shorter line to be treated like a terrorist in my own country.”
CLEAR, the company Duffy-Alfonso mentioned in the post, operates biometric travel document verification systems at some major airports and stadiums around the U.S.
Duffy-Alfonso concluded her post by calling her airport experience “travel brought to you by George Orwell,” and claimed that the “‘golden age of transportation’ cannot begin until the TSA is gone.”
People on social media immediately suggested that Duffy-Alfonso might have a direct contact who could help.
But Duffy-Alfonso rather uncharitably explained that the TSA is an agency of the Department of Homeland Security, which is led by Kristi Noem, not her dad.
She went on to call the agency “a violation of the Fourth Amendment.”
In a separate post, she said that if her father “did have TSA, he’d radically limit it and lobby Congress to abolish it.”
Eventually, Duffy-Alfonso attempted to do some damage control by praising President Donald Trump and Noem for all they’ve done to “keep out terrorists and illegals,” but suggested “there needs to be more common sense around how we treat Americans exercising their right to travel.”
She added that she hopes TSA “works on improving their treatment of expectant mothers who don’t want to go through body scanners to protect their unborn children. We can do both.”
The Department of Transportation and Department of Homeland Security did not immediately reply to HuffPost’s request for comment about Duffy-Alfonso’s posts.
Duffy-Alfonso’s father has also offered up some controversial suggestions for better travel, recently suggesting that people should dress up before flying on planes, that exercise areas should be installed in airports so people can work out before flights (presumedly in suits?) and that gas-guzzling wood-paneled station wagons are ripe for a comeback.