Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy’s daughter called the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) “unconstitutional” after undergoing what she described as an “absurdly invasive” pat-down at airport security.
In a post Thursday on the social platform X, Evita Duffy-Alfonso detailed her challenging experience as a pregnant woman wanting to avoid the radiation exposure from the full-body scanner at security.
Duffy-Alfonso accused TSA agents of pressuring her to walk through the scanner anyway and said she almost missed her flight as a result.
“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,” she said.
“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 continued.
“All this for an unconstitutional agency that isn’t even good at its job,” she wrote, later adding, “The ‘golden age of transportation’ cannot begin until the TSA is gone.”
The TSA — which is housed under the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), not under the Department of Transportation (DOT) — did not respond to a request for comment. DHS and DOT also did not respond to inquiries from The Hill.
Duffy-Alfonso responded to an X user’s comment noting her connection to the Transportation secretary and suggesting, “Perhaps you should run this by him.”
“He isn’t in charge of TSA. TSA is under DHS, which is run by Kristi Noem,” Duffy-Alfonso responded, referring to the secretary of the Department of Homeland Security. “If he did have TSA, he’d radically limit it and lobby Congress to abolish it.”
Duffy-Alfonso has spoken publicly in the past about political issues.
Earlier this year, amid Rep. Anna Paulina Luna’s (R-Fla.) push to allow proxy voting for new parents in Congress, the secretary’s daughter called the request “unconstitutional” and suggested new parents resign from Congress if they are “unable to fulfill the duties required of a member of Congress.”
