Secretary of Transportation Pete Buttigieg shares how he's overseeing one of the most significant investments in America's roads, bridges and rails in over 50 years.
Three years ago, Pete Buttigieg was the mayor of South Bend, Indiana, a city with only about 160 traffic lights. Today"Mayor Pete" is"Secretary Pete," head of the United States Department of Transportation. Thanks to the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law passed last year, he's overseeing one of the most significant investments in America's bridges, roads and rails in more than half a century.
When grading the overall state of this country's infrastructure, the American Society of Civil Engineers recently gave the U.S. a C-minus. Anderson Cooper: When was the last time that the country invested this amount of money in infrastructure? Anderson Cooper: In a lot of communities, when they get money, their emphasis is on building new roads. You're trying to emphasize fixing existing roads. That's not always popular.
Anderson Cooper: There's research showing that historically more of the grant money goes to states that voted for the party in power. Under Obama it went to blue states, under President Trump it went to-- to red states. Is that gonna happen again?Anderson Cooper: But no administration says,"Yeah, that's what we're doing." But historically that is what happens.
Pete Buttigieg: Yeah. And we're going deep into the 21st century still depending on that hundred-year-old infrastructure. The tunnel's so badly damaged crews have to work on it at night so pieces of it don't fall on the tracks during the day. If an expected infrastructure grant comes through, construction of a new tunnel could finally begin next year.
The passage of the infrastructure bill in the Senate was the result of some serious bridge-building. Five Republican and five Democratic senators negotiated the deal and convinced their colleagues to support it. In the House of Representatives, 200 Republicans and six Democrats voted against the legislation, but that didn't stop many of them from later claiming credit for the money it gave to their districts.
Tucker Carlson on Fox News: Pete Buttigieg has been on leave from his job since August after adopting a child, paternity leave, they call it, trying to figure out how to breastfeed, no word on how that went.Pete Buttigieg: A little bit. Yeah. Because some of it came from corners that-- talk a lot about family valuesOne thing-- I wanted to make sure people understood was that, like so many parents have to do, I took care of my kids and I took care of business.
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