Buttigieg’s Next Job: Selling $3 Trillion Infrastructure Plan to Skeptics

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Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg is talking like a small city mayor again as he prepares to help sell the Biden administration’s $3 trillion infrastructure plan to a bitterly divided Congress

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Mr. Buttigieg, who served two terms as mayor of South Bend, Ind., said that focusing on the needs of local government will be particularly useful as the administration tries to ensure that its forthcoming“As a former mayor, I tend to think that local governments make the best decisions,” Mr. Buttigieg said in an interview. “And I think often they’ll be the first to acknowledge some of these climate realities, because they don’t have a choice not to.

Mr. Buttigieg recalled puzzling over floodplain maps whose definition had clearly changed after South Bend was pummeled by two different storms that triggered what should have been once-in-a-millenium flooding. “I don’t think we’re really going to fight local governments on climate reality,” he said. “If anything, they’re typically ahead of us.”

 

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To the skeptics & cynics who doubt the need for repairs to our highways, bridges & airports: Nearly all of our major corridors & facilities are decades old and crumbling. Many were designed with slide rules, well before pocket calculators. Repairs only make sense.

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