Labor Day, the traditional close to American summer road trip season, is less than three weeks away. The arrival of U.S. Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy's conflict-riddled, corporate-funded family road trip reality show is much more difficult to predict.

Duffy acknowledged this recently while taking time off from his day job – again – to campaign in Wisconsin with his son-in-law, who is seeking a U.S. House seat in Congress.

Duffy, in an Aug. 10 interview with NewsNation, said the project called "The Great American Road Trip" was created to "encourage people to get out and travel and see this beautiful country" by filming his family doing just that. But he acknowledged the project was behind schedule to “make sure I come into compliance with all of the ethics rules" for his government post, and might finally be posted on YouTube in a week or two.

This corporate grift – a clear financial benefit for Duffy and his wife, Fox News host Rachel Campos-Duffy – is being paid for by companies regulated by the U.S. Department of Transportation. It was staged during a summer when Americans scaled back on travel due to the increased cost of gasoline and rising taxation sparked by a war of choice in Iran launched in February by Duffy's........

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