Fox News host says Trump made her husband Transportation secretary ‘because that was all that’s left’

Fox News host Rachel Campos-Duffy on Tuesday said President Trump tapped her husband, Sean Duffy, to be Transportation secretary “because that was all that’s left.”

The two were interviewed on “ The Katie Miller Podcast ,” hosted by the wife of White House deputy chief of staff Stephen Miller. The host asked about their conversation after Trump nominated Duffy.

“He said he wanted to serve the president in any way,” Campos-Duffy said. “He ended up in Transportation because that was all that’s left.”

Duffy, himself a former Fox News host, interjected and said he believed Trump when he told him, “If I wasn’t the president, I would pick the Department of Transportation over any department. It’s the best department, and I’m going to give it to you.”

The secretary then emphasized Trump’s focus on construction, having been a developer for much of his life, and said the U.S. has “a president who cares about the infrastructure of America. Usually, presidents don’t give a darn.”

Campos-Miller later said that given her closeness to the administration through her husband and role at Fox News, she does not “talk about anything to do with transportation, and Fox wouldn’t want me to and I don’t want to.”

“It’s no secret that Rachel Campos-Duffy loves President Donald Trump,” she said, causing Miller to laugh. “I was with him when he came down the escalator [in New York City’s Trump Tower in 2015]. I was very early on and even in the dark years when he was out of office and a lot of people had a lot of beef with him and he was facing all the criminal charges .”

Duffy, who also served as NASA’s acting administrator in 2025, and Campos-Duffy have been married since 1999.

The two host a reality series titled “The Great American Road Trip,” which prompted the watchdog group Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington to call on the Department of Transportation’s Office of Inspector General to investigate Duffy’s role in the show and whether he violated any federal regulations or laws in filming the series.

Campos-Duffy defended her husband, saying he’s not a “ corrupt man .”

Duffy previously co-hosted Fox Business Network’s “The Bottom Line” before Trump asked him to join his second administration. Campos-Duffy guest-hosted on Fox News’s “Outnumbered” before she became a permanent co-host of “Fox & Friends Weekend” in 2021.

Trump also hired former “Fox & Friends Weekend” co-host Pete Hegseth to be Defense secretary and former Fox News host Dan Bongino to serve as deputy director of the FBI before he resigned in January.

Trump has long favored Fox News’s coverage of his administrations, though not without some criticism when their coverage refers to his low approval rating or remarks from critics .