It was the kind of political stunt that Buttigieg would recycle in his 2020 campaign for president.
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“The pothole is the natural enemy and prey of every mayor,” Buttigieg tweeted alongside a photo of him packing patch into the space where the asphalt had split. When the freezing and thawing of a northern Indiana winter opened craters on South Bend’s roads in January that year, Buttigieg joined a road crew to personally repair potholes. Back then, Buttigieg’s city spent about $175 million – with an “m” – on the entirety of its government operations. Department of Transportation secretary has had at their disposal, several times over. 15 includes hundreds of billions of dollars that Buttigieg will oversee as the nation’s transportation secretary, a role he began less than 10 months ago.īy itself, the discretionary funding that his department will dish out to repair roads, rebuild bridges and expand public transit eclipses what any previous U.S. The $1 trillion bipartisan infrastructure bill President Joe Biden signed into law Nov. Now, he will oversee the largest cash infusion into the nation’s transportation infrastructure in a generation. In 2017, then-Mayor Pete Buttigieg was filling potholes in South Bend, Indiana.
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(Photo by Nicholas Kamm / AFP) (Photo by NICHOLAS KAMM/AFP via Getty Images) US Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg speaks in the Brady Briefing Room during the daily White House briefing on May 12, 2021, in Washington, DC.