The daughter of Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy went on a rant on X after nearly missing a flight on Thursday over an “absurdly invasive pat-down,” calling on President Trump and Homeland Security Kristi Noem to abolish the TSA.
“I nearly missed my flight this morning after the TSA made me wait 15 minutes for a pat-down because I’m pregnant and didn’t feel like getting radiation exposure from their body scanner,” Evita Duffy-Alfonso wrote on X.
“The agents were passive-aggressive, rude, and tried to pressure me and another pregnant woman into just walking through the scanner because it’s ‘safe.’ After finally getting the absurdly invasive pat-down, I barely made my flight,” she added.
Evita Duffy-Alfonso, daughter of US Secretary of Transportation, Sean Duffy, slammed TSA after nearly missing her flight on Thursday. x/evitaduffy_1
Duffy-Alfonso said she went through an “invasive” pat-down before her flight Thursday morning. APDuffy-Alfonso slammed the TSA as an “unconstitutional agency,” claiming it treats travelers like her “like a terrorist” in their own country.
“The ‘golden age of transportation’ cannot begin until the TSA is gone,” she vented.
Duffy-Alfonso, 26, is the oldest of nine children of parents Sean Duffy, 54, and Fox News host Rachel Campos-Duffy, 54. Her husband, Michael Alfonso, is running for Congress in Wisconsin’s Seventh Congressional District, the seat Sean Duffy held for nearly a decade.
Duffy-Alfonso also took aim at the CLEAR program that allows passengers to bypass long waits at the security lines, calling it outrageous that travelers be asked to sign up for a private service to avoid the routine hassle at the TSA checkpoints.
“TSA = unreasonable, warrantless searches of passengers and their property. That means it violates the Fourth Amendment and is therefore unconstitutional. Pls abolish @realDonaldTrump @Sec_Noem,” Duffy-Alfonso wrote in a separate post.
Duffy-Alfonso called on Homeland Secretary Kristi Noem and President Trump to abolish the TSA. AP
Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy has faced increased pressure to tackle travel chaos in US airports. Fox NewsWhen several people on X pointed out that Duffy-Alfonso could directly talk to her father about the problem with the TSA, she quickly pointed out that the agency does not fall under the Department of Transportation.
“TSA is under DHS, which is run by Kristi Noem. If he did have TSA, he’d radically limit it and lobby Congress to abolish it,” she wrote.
Both Duffy-Alfonso and a representative for Duffy declined to comment to The Post. Noem’s office did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
Duffy-Alfonso’s criticism is only the latest aimed at the TSA following recent years of travel mayhem where passengers have had to endure long lines at the nation’s airports due to the lengthy screening process.
Republican lawmakers have repeatedly vowed to abolish the TSA throughout the years, but the movement has never managed to gain ground.
