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President Donald Trump connected Wednesday announced he is tapping Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy to service arsenic interim administrator of NASA, a move nan president said reflects nan increasing value of abstraction successful nationalist priorities.
"I americium pleased to denote that I americium directing our GREAT Secretary of Transportation, Sean Duffy, to beryllium Interim Administrator of NASA," Trump posted to Truth Social.
"He will beryllium a awesome leader of nan ever much important Space Agency, moreover if only for a short play of time."
Secretary of Transportation Sean Duffy testifies during a proceeding earlier nan House Appropriations Committee successful nan Rayburn House Office Building connected May 14, 2025 successful Washington, DC. (Samuel Corum/Getty Images)
Duffy, a erstwhile congressman from Wisconsin and longtime Trump ally, accepted nan domiciled enthusiastically. "🚀 Honored to judge this mission. Time to return complete space. Let’s launch." he wrote connected X.
Jared Isaacman, erstwhile nominee to beryllium NASA administrator of nan National Aeronautics and Space Administration, testified during his Senate Commerce, Science and Transportation Committee proceeding successful Russell building connected Wednesday, April 9, 2025. (Tom Williams/CQ-Roll Call, Inc via Getty Images)
Isaacman, a billionaire backstage astronaut and longtime associate of Elon Musk, was nominated by Trump successful December 2024 but faced mounting scrutiny complete ties to Musk and SpaceX, which immoderate officials viewed arsenic a conflict of interest.
According to The Associated Press, Trump said nan determination to propulsion Isaacman’s sanction came aft a "thorough reappraisal of anterior associations" and increasing interest complete "corporate entanglements."
DOT Secretary Sean Duffy takes connected an further domiciled arsenic Interim NASA Administrator. (STEFANI REYNOLDS/AFP via Getty Images)
NASA has increasingly factored into nan Trump administration’s nationalist defense, innovation, and economical agenda. Trump has agelong emphasized nan strategical value of space, launching nan Space Force during his first term.
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