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January 21, 2021

Buttigieg floats gas tax hike despite concern about regressive impact

Transportation Secretary nominee Pete Buttigieg expressed an openness to a federal gas tax increase in order to pump more money into the suffering Highway Trust Fund.

January 21, 2021

LIVE UPDATES: Buttigieg defends Biden ending Keystone XL pipeline

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January 21, 2021

Pete Buttigieg: 5 things to know

Former South Bend, Ind., Mayor Pete Buttigieg first made a splash in the 2020 Democratic presidential primary as the previously almost-unknown midwest mayor rocketed to the top of the polls. Now he is President Biden's choice to be the next secretary of transportation.

December 23, 2020

Biden's pick Buttigieg agrees to look for emails related to ID card program for illegal immigrants

The incoming Biden administration’s nominee for transportation secretary will be busy producing emails for a conservative government watchdog group about his role in establishing a special residential ID card program for illegal immigrants.

December 19, 2020

During Buttigieg’s tenure as mayor, South Bend had transportation scandal

Pete Buttigieg, who President-elect Joe Biden has nominated as Transportation Secretary, dealt with a public transportation scandal while he was the Mayor of South Bend, Indiana. 

December 17, 2020

Jason Chaffetz: Joe Biden and former rival Pete Buttigieg — what's really behind Transportation nomination

Joe Biden apparently felt pressure to appoint his former rival for the Democratic presidential nomination to something. But what?

December 17, 2020

NPR gushes over Buttigieg’s ‘personal love of transportation,’ quickly gets roasted

NPR was roasted on social media Wednesday after fawning over Pete Buttigieg, President-elect Joe Biden's pick for transportation secretary, after famously refusing to cover the Hunter Biden scandal.

December 16, 2020

Biden transition team deletes old ad hammering Buttigieg's lack of experience

President-elect Joe Biden’s transition team has deleted an ad hammering Pete Buttigieg’s lack of experience from the Democratic primary after Biden chose the former mayor to serve as transportation secretary. 

December 16, 2020

Biden gets Buttigieg husband's name wrong, calls him 'Kristen'

President-elect Joe Biden during a speech on Wednesday accidentally referred to the husband of former South Bend Mayor Pete Buttigieg by the wrong name.

December 16, 2020

Biden pushes back against critics, touts 'Cabinet of firsts'

After weeks of pressure from all sides of the Democratic Party’s vast coalition over the makeup of his incoming administration, President-elect Joe Biden on Wednesday pushed back against his critics as he made another history-making Cabinet nomination.