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Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg pitched President Joe Biden's massive infrastructure plan on ABC's "This Week."

Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg said during Sunday’s “Meet the Press” that the $2 trillion bill introduced by President Joe Biden represents a “a generational investment."

Five takeaways from Bidens White House cabinet © Getty Images Biden chairs his first cabinet meeting Its been a long three months, but US President Joe Biden has now finalised his White House cabinet - the top aides that will guide his administrations oversight of the federal government. On Thursday, the president sat down for the first time with his assembled team. With Labour Secretary Marty Walshs Senate confirmation last week, Biden filled all 15 of his presidential cabinet secretary pos...

Biden to hold 1st Cabinet meeting the day after proposing infrastructure plan President Joe Biden will hold his first Cabinet meeting Thursday afternoon at the White House, one day after announcing his massive infrastructure plan, which is expected to be a major topic of conversation for the first in-person session. © Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris meet with cabinet members and immigration advisors in the State Dining Room, March 24, 2021,...

Biden taps five agency heads to sell infrastructure plan Brett Samuels © Greg Nash Biden taps five agency heads to sell infrastructure plan President Biden on Thursday tapped five Cabinet officials to lead the administrations effort to educate the public on his $2.25 trillion infrastructure proposal. Biden announced during his first official Cabinet meeting that Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg, Energy Secretary Jennifer Granholm, Secretary of Housing and Urban Develop...

Former President Barack Obama reportedly told a crowd of donors that Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg could not win the presidency because “he’s gay” and “short,” according to a book on the 2020 presidential election.

10 Things in Politics: Mayor Petes trying to make DOT cool bgriffiths@insider.com (Brent D. Griffiths) © Alex Wong/Getty Images Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg. Alex Wong/Getty Images Good morning! Welcome back to 10 Things in Politics. We have an incredible range of exclusive reporting from my colleagues today. Im Brent Griffiths. Dont miss the best of Insiders political coverage!Sign up here to get this newsletter in your inbox each day. Send your tips and thoughts ...

South Bend, Ind.’s Former Mayor Pete Buttigieg became the United States’ first openly gay cabinet member. Appointed by President Joseph Robinette Biden Jr., many Americans see Buttigieg’s appointment as a positive step on the road to a more progressive and inclusive America.

Highways that destroyed Black neighborhoods are crumbling. Some want to undo that legacy CNN 2/27/2021 By Matt McFarland, CNN Business © Mario Villafuerte/Bloomberg/Getty Images Motorists drive their vehicles along Interstate 20 in Shreveport, Louisiana, in a file photo from 2007. Njeri Camara, 61, cant visit the Shreveport, Louisiana home where she was born. Like many Black homes and neighborhoods across the country in the 1960s, it was bulldozed to clear space for highway...

That is the working definition of the word "diversity" in our benighted age: no non-Hispanic white Protestant heterosexual males! Only one of the sixteen is a white male Protestant: Peter Buttigieg, the Transportation Secretary; and as an Episcopalian, his Protestantism is borderline. I used to be an Episcopalian, and I recall that bit in the liturgy where we prayed for the Holy Catholic and Apostolic Church. Confessionwise I count eight Roman Catholics, four Jews, two Protestants, one Hindu,...