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Biden’s choice of Buttigieg another win for progressive elites Michael Graham © Provided by Boston Herald Former South Bend, Ind. Mayor Pete Buttigieg, President-elect Joe Bidens nominee to be transportation secretary, speaks as Biden looks on during a news conference at The Queen theater in Wilmington, Del., Wednesday, Dec. 16, 2020. (Kevin Lamarque/Pool via AP) At the Joe Biden presser announcing his pick as Transportation Secretary yesterday, Mayor Pete claimed he’s ha...

Copyright 2020 NPR. To see more, visit https://www.npr.org. STEVE INSKEEP, HOST: The president-elect has named several more officials whose job will include fighting climate change. This is an issue where the new administration has a very different approach from the old one. The Biden administration is setting goals for clean energy and arguing that the transition to new fuels will help the economy, and Biden aides talk of this as an issue to address all across the government. Energy use, aft...

Biden team deletes ad mocking Buttigieg after nominating him for DOT secretary Michael Lee © Provided by Washington Examiner President-elect Joe Biden’s transition team deleted a primary election ad that slammed Pete Buttigieg’s lack of experience now that the former South Bend, Indiana, mayor has been nominated to be Biden’s secretary for the Department of Transportation. "Both Vice President Biden and former Mayor Buttigieg have taken on tough fights. Under threat of a...

What you need to know about Bidens cabinet picks CNN 1/8/2021 By Kate Sullivan, CNN © David Paul Morris/Bloomberg/Getty Images/FILE Jennifer Granholm, former governor of Michigan, speaks during TechCrunch Disrupt 2019 in San Francisco, California, U.S., on Thursday, Oct. 3, 2019. TechCrunch Disrupt, the worlds leading authority in debuting revolutionary startups, gathers the brightest entrepreneurs, investors, hackers, and tech fans for on-stage interviews. Photographer: Da...

The Energy 202: Bidens choice of ex-Michigan governor as energy secretary points to focus on electric cars Dino Grandoni with Alexandra Ellerbeck President-elect Joe Biden’s choice of Jennifer Granholm to be his energy secretary is a sign the president-elect’s team will try to spur automakers to sell cars that need little to no gasoline. The relationship that Granholm, the former two-term governor of Michigan, has with Detroit automakers may prove crucial to the incomin...

In stirring speech, Pete Buttigieg makes history again for LGBTQ Americans as first gay cabinet nominee Marc Ramirez, USA TODAY UP NEXT Nearly a year ago in Des Moines, Pete Buttigieg hugged his husband onstage after his win in the Iowa caucuses made him the first openly LGBTQ candidate to earn delegates toward a major political party’s presidential nomination. Now, he’s making history again as the first openly gay man to be nominated to a Cabinet role, with President-elect...

Opinion: The extraordinary rise of Pete Buttigieg CNN 12/16/2020 Opinion by Lincoln Mitchell © ELIZABETH FRANTZ/REUTERS Former Democratic presidential candidate Pete Buttigieg endorses former U.S. Vice President Joe Biden at Chicken Scratch in Dallas, Texas, U.S., March 2, 2020. The news that Pete Buttigieg will be President-elect Joseph Bidens nominee for Transportation Secretary is the latest step in a rather extraordinary political journey. Less than two years ago, Butti...

Biden’s Buttigieg Pick Signals Optimism on Infrastructure Bloomberg 16/12/2020 Alan Levin, Keith Laing and Jennifer Epstein © Photographer: Pool/Getty Images North America WILMINGTON, DELAWARE - DECEMBER 16: Former Democratic presidential candidate Pete Buttigieg (L) listens as U.S. President-elect Joe Biden announces his nomination during a news conference at Bidens transition headquarters on December 16, 2020 in Wilmington, Delaware. Biden made further announcements reg...

Smooth-talking Buttigieg to be Biden’s infrastructure salesman in chief POLITICO 12/16/2020 By Tanya Snyder and Sam Mintz © Kevin Lamarque/Pool via AP Former South Bend, Ind. Mayor Pete Buttigieg, President-elect Joe Bidens nominee to be Transportation secretary, reacts to his nomination as Biden looks on during a news conference at The Queen theater in Wilmington, Del., Wednesday, Dec. 16, 2020. Pete Buttigieg is headed to DOTs top spot, where despite his thin transporta...

Cabinet of firsts: Biden touts Buttigiegs historic nomination Brooke Sopelsa © Provided by NBC News President-elect Joe Biden’s Cabinet is shaping up to be a team of “firsts,” and he introduced yet another of his history-making nominations Wednesday: Pete Buttigieg as his pick to lead the Department of Transportation. If confirmed, the former mayor of South Bend, Indiana, would be the first openly gay member of a presidential Cabinet to be confirmed by the Senate. “Thi...