My visits to Delta, Atlanta airport and past confirmed me the spirit of ‘sheer American will’ is alive and effectively.
U.S. Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy visits a fuel station in Rome throughout a February go to to the Georgia. (Courtesy)
By Sean P. Duffy – For The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
12 hours in the past
President Donald J. Trump delivered a historic State of the Union speech on Feb. 24, and the message was clear: America is successful once more. After years of our nation being held hostage by woke ideologies, we’re again to constructing issues greater and stronger than ever earlier than.
To see it for myself, we left the D.C. swamp and headed all the way down to Georgia. From the suburbs to downtown Atlanta, I heard firsthand that having a president who places us first is making life reasonably priced and protected once more for Georgians.
I spent a while speaking to people at an area fuel station, and I heard the identical factor again and again: Trump is bringing the price of dwelling down.
Under President Joe Biden, Georgia’s fuel worth common acquired as excessive as $4.49 per gallon! Thanks to President Trump unleashing American power, the Georgians are actually seeing fuel as cheap as $2.75. Across the nation, Americans are on monitor to avoid wasting $11 billion on fuel in 2026 in comparison with final 12 months. That’s actual cash for groceries, mortgage funds and summer season holidays.
We’re ensuring Americans can really afford a good-quality automobile, too. By ending the Biden-Pete Buttigieg electric vehicle mandate, we knocked a median of $1,000 off the worth of a brand new automobile. Plus, because of Trump and the Republicans in Congress, the Working Families Tax Cut Act presents as much as $10,000 in tax deductions on auto loans for American-made automobiles. This is the primary time this has been accomplished — ever.
Road security, driver {qualifications} are prime issues
Sean Duffy is U.S. Secretary of Transportation. (Courtesy)
Another subject I mentioned with Georgians was highway security. After the earlier administration allowed thousands and thousands of undocumented immigrants to flood our borders, our highways grew to become much less protected as a result of drivers who couldn’t learn our highway indicators got licenses to drive 80,000-pound large rigs.
Trump and I heard you loud and clear: Our roads have to be protected for American households. We are cracking down on dangerous drivers. We are ensuring the vans sharing the highway with your loved ones are operated by law-abiding professionals who can learn our highway indicators and talk with our legislation enforcement.
Since implementing these security requirements, we’ve issued a rule to cease unqualified international drivers from driving large rigs, put 14,000 drivers out of service for English proficiency failures, launched a nationwide Commercial Driver’s License audit and yanked greater than 7,500 unqualified coaching suppliers from the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration nationwide coaching registry. We won’t ever cease combating to guard American households on our roads from unqualified and unsafe drivers.
Another subject I mentioned with Georgians was highway security. After the earlier administration allowed thousands and thousands of undocumented immigrants to flood our borders, our highways grew to become much less protected as a result of drivers who couldn’t learn our highway indicators got licenses to drive 80,000-pound large rigs.
Trump and I heard you loud and clear: Our roads have to be protected for American households. We are cracking down on dangerous drivers. We are ensuring the vans sharing the highway with your loved ones are operated by law-abiding professionals who can learn our highway indicators and talk with our legislation enforcement.
Since implementing these security requirements, we’ve issued a rule to cease unqualified international drivers from driving large rigs, put 14,000 drivers out of service for English proficiency failures, launched a nationwide Commercial Driver’s License audit and yanked greater than 7,500 unqualified coaching suppliers from the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration nationwide coaching registry. We won’t ever cease combating to guard American households on our roads from unqualified and unsafe drivers.
In his momentous speech, the president reminded us that Americans had been the pioneers who first conquered the skies by “sheer American will.” My visits to Delta Air Lines and Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport confirmed me that this spirit is alive and effectively. America is on the forefront at aviation, as a result of Trump has led the way in which in unleashing innovation and reducing by crimson tape.
Americans deserves seamless journey experiences
The Working Families Tax Cut gave us $12.5 billion to modernize our air site visitors management system and supercharge our air site visitors controller pipeline. At Hartsfield-Jackson, we’re working to replace the telecoms community by subsequent summer season, exchange the paper flight strips with digital ones by October and begin putting in the brand new radars and radios.
We are transferring on the “speed of Trump” as a result of the Americans deserve a seamless journey expertise and the most secure skies on the earth.
My time in Georgia proved what the president lately stated: There isn’t any problem we are able to’t overcome. From the again roads in South Georgia to the world’s busiest airport, Trump’s Department of Transportation is working across the clock to ship a Golden Age of Travel for the American folks.
We’re constructing a future that displays the greatness of our folks — as a result of now we have a president who is aware of precisely who he works for. America first.
Sean P. Duffy is the Secretary of the U.S. Department of Transportation.