Posted on 02/02/2021 12:09:30 PM PST by Coronal
WASHINGTON — Pete Buttigieg won Senate approval Tuesday as transportation secretary, the first openly gay person to be confirmed to a Cabinet post. He’ll be tasked with advancing President Joe Biden’s ambitious agenda of rebuilding the nation’s infrastructure and fighting climate change.
Buttigieg, a 39-year-old former mayor of South Bend, Indiana, and Biden’s one-time rival during the Democratic presidential primaries, was approved on a 86-13 vote.
“I’m honored and humbled by today’s vote in the Senate—and ready to get to work,” Buttigieg tweeted shortly after he was confirmed.
Praised by Biden as bringing a “new voice” to the administration, Buttigieg takes over a Transportation Department with 55,000 employees and a budget of tens of billions dollars. He has pledged to quickly get to work promoting safety and restoring consumer trust in America’s transportation networks as airlines, buses, city subway systems and Amtrak reel from plummeting ridership in the coronavirus pandemic.
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Well I’m sure he knows his way around interstates rest stops
it appears we have next to no resistance to the usurping regime.
pete has zero qualifications for this.
YaY!
Remember when the bipartisan Senate confirmed all of Pres Trump’s nominees so fast and gleefully?
Yeah....me neither.
GOP doesn’t even care, if you can’t stand them, anymore.
Another pinko.
Biden/Harris sure know how to pick them.
I’m about to puke. That is all.
From now on known as the Department of Trans-Portation.
Bridges to be replaced by ferry’s.
I95 will now be the Hershey Highway.
titled as secTRANS. J/S.
He has used transportation and he is a homosexual. What are his other qualifications for the job?
Totally unqualified, except for being a leftist. That’s really the only qualification needed in the Democrat party to hold any position.
If he weren’t gay, the Democrats would have no use for him.
“...pete has zero qualifications for this...”
Layin’ pipe down the Hershey Highway doesn’t count? :P
“pete has zero qualifications for this.”
Oh I beg to differ! He’s gay, and LGBT activist, liberal of course, supports the Green Deal, supports Puerto Rico statehood, wants debt-free college, and best of all claims to be a devout CHRISTIAN! See? PERFECTLY qualified for any job they plop him in with those stellar qualifications alone.
What????
Are the Pubbies fully neutered now?????
What RINOcrat eunuchs voted to confirm this perverted POS?!?
No! He’s the new Insertion Secretary!
I wouldn’t let this jive punk ass walk my dog.
I assume he will make parking in the rear easier
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