Hillary Clinton Smacked Down After Attempted DOGE Criticism

Department of Transportation (DOT) Secretary Sean Duffy snapped back at former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s criticisms.

On Wednesday, Duffy shared on X that the DOT plans to collaborate with DOGE to “plug in to help upgrade our aviation system.”

Clinton shot back that the DOGE team had “no relevant experience” and made a dig that many weren’t even “old enough to rent a car.”

“And you’re going to let them mess with airline safety that’s already deteriorated on your watch?” she added, clearly blaming Duffy for the recent plane and black hawk helicopter crash in Washington, D.C.

Appearing on Fox Business’ “The Bottom Line,” Duffy directly addressed Clinton’s remarks on Friday. He confidently invited the challenge, pointing out, rather sharply, that the system “hasn’t been updated in decades.”

“Listen, I wasn’t going to take that lying down. Hillary Clinton wants to pick a fight about a system that’s been broken for years—decades even,” Duffy said unapologetically.

“They tried to update it for the last 20 or 30 years and haven’t been able to do it. We’re using World War II technology. I’m not going to listen to Hillary Clinton.”

Undeterred, Duffy began explaining his choice to work with DOGE, highlighting their innovative, albeit unconventional, approach.

“We think of DOGE as maybe a cutting body where we’re going to look at the efficiency of government by cutting,” he continued.

Duffy said he spoke to tech mogul Elon Musk about rapidly building a better air traffic control system in the next two years that “will be safer, that will allow for more efficiencies, make sure people don’t die in our airspace.”

Meanwhile, Duffy didn’t hesitate to throw some shade at Clinton while defending DOGE’s younger team.

When addressing her claim that the team lacked experience, he clapped back on X, “With all due respect, ‘experienced’ Washington bureaucrats are the reason our nation’s infrastructure is crumbling. You need to sit this one out.”

He reinforced that sentiment during his interview, doubling down on his partnership with Musk. “I’m not going to go to Hillary Clinton. I’m not going to talk to her,” Duffy declared.

“But a guy that launches Teslas into space, launches people into space, rockets into space and then catches those rockets taken, I sure as hell am going to talk to that guy. That’s the guy I want to talk to make sure I have the right system in place.”

And Duffy wasn’t done—he took another jab at Clinton’s dig about younger DOGE staffers, saying, “Hillary and Bill know a lot about 22-year-olds. They can have that conversation. But I want the engineers that are 22-years-old helping us out.”

While Duffy fended off attacks from Clinton, another controversy involving DOGE was brewing. A clash on social media occurred between Vice President Vance and Representative Ro Khanna over whether a controversial DOGE staffer, Marko Elez, should be rehired following the exposure of his offensive past social media posts.

Elez, 25, had previously been granted “read-only” access to sensitive Treasury Department systems while working as a DOGE team aide.

However, an investigation led by The Wall Street Journal revealed his past posts, which heavily leaned into racism.

One post allegedly read, “Normalize Indian hate,” while another declared, “You could not pay me to marry outside of my ethnicity.” Following the uproar, Elez resigned on Thursday, confirmed by a White House official.

But Vance wasn’t entirely ready to shut the door on Elez. On Friday, he tweeted his opinion, suggesting the young staffer should be given another chance. “Here’s my view,” Vance began. “I obviously disagree with some of Elez’s posts, but I don’t think stupid social media activity should ruin a kid’s life.”

Vance’s comments were in direct response to Elon Musk posing a poll to X users, asking if Elez should be rehired after his “inappropriate statements.”

Vance elaborated, “We shouldn’t reward journalists who try to destroy people. Ever. So I say bring him back. If he’s a bad dude or a terrible member of the team, fire him for that.”

Unsurprisingly, Khanna wasn’t buying it. He clapped back at Vance on the platform, demanding an apology from Elez.

“Are you going to tell him to apologize for saying ‘Normalize Indian hate’ before this rehire? Just asking for the sake of both of our kids,” Khanna posted.

Vance, whose wife happens to be the first Indian American second lady, wasn’t having it. He fired back, “For the sake of both of our kids? Grow up.”

He continued on a more personal note, stating, “Racist trolls on the internet, while offensive, don’t threaten my kids. You know what does? A culture that denies grace to people who make mistakes. A culture that encourages congressmen to act like whiny children.”

Expounding further, Vance criticized Khanna’s message as nothing more than “emotional blackmail,” slamming the congressman for allegedly exploiting his family in the debate.

“I don’t worry about my kids making mistakes, or developing views they later regret. I don’t even worry that much about trolls on the internet. You know what I do worry about, Ro? That they’ll grow up to be a US Congressmen who engages in emotional blackmail over a kid’s social media posts,” Vance continued. “You disgust me.”

But Khanna retaliated once more, suggesting Vance’s name-calling was unproductive. “Saying I am ‘whiny’ & ‘you disgust me’ maybe your way of showing strength,” he countered.

“Personally, I don’t think you have to hurl insults or be mean-spirited to have a free exchange ideas. Our country, at its, best (Lincoln/Douglass) was not like that and you at your best JD were not either.”