{"id":6781,"date":"2024-11-20T20:22:37","date_gmt":"2024-11-21T00:22:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.radiorebelde.cu\/english\/?p=6781"},"modified":"2024-11-20T20:22:39","modified_gmt":"2024-11-21T00:22:39","slug":"donald-trump-taps-fox-news-personality-and-climate-conspiracist-sean-duffy-as-transportation-secretary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.radiorebelde.cu\/english\/donald-trump-taps-fox-news-personality-and-climate-conspiracist-sean-duffy-as-transportation-secretary-20112024\/","title":{"rendered":"Donald Trump taps Fox News personality and climate conspiracist Sean Duffy as Transportation Secretary"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>U.S. President-elect Donald Trump has nominated Fox News personality Sean Duffy as secretary of transportation. &nbsp;In the 1990s, Duffy starred in MTV reality TV shows including \u201cThe Real World: Boston\u201d and \u201cRoad Rules.\u201d&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Duffy served five terms as a Republican congressmember representing northern Wisconsin until 2019, when he resigned from Congress. &nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In 2016, he authored the PROMESA Act, which created an unelected, federally appointed control board with sweeping powers to run Puerto Rico\u2019s economy.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Sean Duffy has a 2% lifetime score from the League of Conservation Voters. &nbsp;He has previously blamed the sun \u2014 rather than human activity \u2014 for global heating and has promoted what he called \u201calternative science\u201d challenging the overwhelming scientific consensus on the climate crisis.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>U.S. President-elect Donald Trump has nominated Fox News personality Sean Duffy as secretary of transportation. &nbsp;In the 1990s, Duffy starred in MTV reality TV shows including &ldquo;The Real World: Boston&rdquo;&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6782,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"ppma_author":[42],"class_list":["post-6781","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world"],"authors":[{"term_id":42,"user_id":0,"is_guest":1,"slug":"radio-habana-cuba","display_name":"Radio Habana Cuba","avatar_url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&r=g","0":null,"1":"","2":"","3":"","4":"","5":"","6":"","7":"","8":""}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.radiorebelde.cu\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6781","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.radiorebelde.cu\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.radiorebelde.cu\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.radiorebelde.cu\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.radiorebelde.cu\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6781"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.radiorebelde.cu\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6781\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6783,"href":"https:\/\/www.radiorebelde.cu\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6781\/revisions\/6783"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.radiorebelde.cu\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6782"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.radiorebelde.cu\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6781"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.radiorebelde.cu\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6781"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.radiorebelde.cu\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6781"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.radiorebelde.cu\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ppma_author?post=6781"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}