A New York Congressman was left stuttering when United States Secretary of Transportation Sean Duffy delivered a fierce comeback throughout a fiery debate on crime in America’s most well-known metropolis.
On Wednesday, Duffy testified earlier than the Home Transportation and Infrastructure Committee on President Donald Trump’s 2026 price range request for his division. This adopted President Trump appointing Duffy as interim NASA administrator along with his job as Transportation secretary, after the president withdrew his first nominee to move the house company.
Issues shortly heated up when Rep. Jerry Nadler (D-NY) determined to assassinate Duffy’s character after the congressman proved unable to deal with the reality about New York Metropolis’s crime price.
Nadler, for a number of minutes, determined to name Duffy a liar, notably when it got here to the assaults on NYC’s subway methods. He repeatedly cited questionable statistics to make it appear riders had nothing to worry whereas smearing Duffy after being corrected.
“Secretary Duffy, as just lately as final week, you once more attacked the MTA (New York Metropolis’s Metropolitan Transportation Authority), claiming that there’s a surge in subway assaults, and accusing the company of withholding data,” Nadler said at one level. “However lots of your statements misrepresent the information and ignore documentation already offered to your division.”
“First, are you conscious that main crime within the transit system, together with assaults, is down 3% since final 12 months and down 8% since 2019?” he inquired.
“Effectively, no, that’s unsuitable. The assaults that we’ve seen are up 60% with MTA within the methods since 2019,” Duffy replied.
“Why do you proceed to disregard this and lie about this in your public feedback?” Nadler demanded.
Duffy lastly had had sufficient of Nadler’s rubbish and shocked him with an enormous fact bomb.
“Why do you proceed to lie about folks being lit on hearth in subways or pushed in entrance of trains?” Duffy roared again. “Try to be preventing to ensure your subways are secure.”
The congressman had no good reply to this fact bomb and instantly ended the battle.
“Our subways…Our subways are secure,” Nadler stammered. “Reclaiming my time.”
WATCH:
WATCH: @SecDuffy destroys Democrat Rep. Jerry Nadler:
“Why do you proceed to lie about folks being lit on hearth in subways or pushed in entrance of trains? Try to be preventing to ensure your subways are secure.” pic.twitter.com/jmdm0FWNsb
— Conservative Battle Machine (@WarMachineRR) July 16, 2025
The Gateway Pundit has extensively reported on the subway crime in New York Metropolis. Simply up to now two years, a number of harmless victims have been shot, assaulted, and even burned alive.
No quantity of lies can cowl up what folks throughout America see taking place within the Massive Apple. Kudos to Duffy for coming ready to place Nadler in his place when he tried to gaslight the nation.
