From ‘Mayor Pete’ to ‘the decider’: Buttigieg to control billions in transportation spending
In 2017, then-Mayor Pete Buttigieg was filling potholes in South Bend, Indiana. Now, he will oversee the largest cash infusion into the nation’s transportation infrastructure in a generation.
The $1 trillion bipartisan infrastructure bill President Joe Biden signed into law Nov. 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.