Biden’s Buttigieg Pick Signals Optimism on Infrastructure
- Biden and his transportation secretary want push for spending
- Just as under Trump, any infrastructure plan faces difficulty
Pete Buttigieg listens as Joe Biden announces his nomination on Dec. 16.
Photographer: Kevin Lamarque/Pool via Getty Images
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President-elect Joe Biden introduced Pete Buttigieg to lead the U.S. Transportation Department, pledging that the job will be essential to achieving his campaign pledge to “build back better.”
“Pete’s going to help build back better with jobs and hope with vision and execution,” Biden said at an event in Wilmington, Delaware. “We selected Pete for Transportation because the department is at the intersection of some of our most ambitious plans.”