Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy and Rep. Jerry Nadler exchanged accusations of dishonesty during a House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee hearing on Wednesday, as the session turned to the question of crime in New York City’s subway system. Nadler, citing Metropolitan Transportation Authority statistics, said major felonies on the network are down 3 percent from last year and 8 percent compared with 2019. Duffy rejected those numbers, asserting that assaults have risen 60 percent over the same period and contending that incidents of riders being set on fire or pushed onto tracks show the system remains dangerous. The confrontation arose during testimony on President Donald Trump’s proposed transportation budget. Duffy also criticized New York’s congestion-pricing plan, which would charge drivers about $9 per day to enter central Manhattan, arguing it lacks precedent and would burden commuters. The clash underscored a broader partisan divide over how to interpret crime data and fund improvements for the nation’s largest mass-transit network, with both officials claiming the other is misrepresenting the facts.