Jeanine Pirro’s move from Fox commentator to the nation’s top prosecutor in Washington, D.C., is finally paying off in the courtroom and on the airwaves. The longtime champion of law and order joined Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy on Fox to lay out the administration’s crime crackdown and to warn that restoring public safety takes boots on the ground and prosecutors in the office. Americans who have watched the city decay for years are breathing a little easier knowing a proven fighter for victims is now in charge.
What Pirro called the hardest part of her new job wasn’t a high-profile case or a political firestorm — it was the raw operational crisis she inherited: the office is down roughly 90 prosecutors and dozens of investigators and paralegals, she told viewers on Fox, even asking patriots who care about public safety to send in résumés. That kind of staffing hemorrhage is not an abstract problem; it means fewer prosecutors on violent-crime cases and less muscle to back up neighborhoods that need it most. Her blunt recruitment pitch was the right kind of honesty Americans deserve from leadership: find people who will do the work and stop making excuses.
Let’s be clear — those vacancies didn’t appear by magic. Years of managerial neglect, politicized reshuffles, and a culture that coddles careerism over street-level justice left the office hollowed out and ineffective. Pirro’s anger about “nobody caring” is a righteous response to an institution that lost sight of victims while spinning paperwork and politics. Conservatives should welcome a prosecutor who says her job is to heal victims and prosecute criminals, not to moralize about root causes while law-abiding citizens pay the price.
Meanwhile, Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy was doing the honest thing on the fallout from the ongoing government standoff — calling on air traffic controllers and other essential workers to show up for duty while warning that the shutdown is already straining the system. Duffy’s warnings about rising sick calls, staffing shortfalls and skyrocketing delays are a direct consequence of the budget impasse, and he’s right to put public safety first and call out those preventing paychecks from being processed. When the federal government shuts down, it is everyday Americans who feel it most — not the partisan elites in their comfortable bubbles.
This administration put people with real experience into leadership instead of career apparatchiks, and the results are immediate: a prosecutor willing to roll up her sleeves and a transportation boss telling the truth about operational damage from a political shutdown. Pirro’s confirmation — a hard-fought Senate vote that produced a partisan debate — should remind voters that restoring law and order requires grit and a willingness to confront the swamp, not comfort-zone politics. The American people deserve officials who will fight for their safety and their neighborhoods, and these two are showing they will.
If you believe in secure streets, accountable government, and leaders who actually do the job they were hired to do, now is the time to back teams that put results over spin. Call out the politicians playing chicken with the country’s functioning, support the prosecutors who are after violent offenders, and demand Congress stop weaponizing shutdowns as a partisan bargaining chip. Hardworking Americans want safety, fairness, and a government that works for them — and leaders like Pirro and Duffy are finally answering that call.

