Posted on 10/17/2021 8:05:59 AM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg predicted on Sunday that supply chain issues facing the US will continue into 2022, but stressed that Congress potentially passing President Joe Biden's infrastructure proposal is the best way to help alleviate those problems.
"Certainly a lot of the challenges that we've been experiencing this year will continue into next year. But there are both short-term and long-term steps that we can take to do something about it," Buttigieg told CNN's Jake Tapper on "State of the Union."
"Look, part of what's happening isn't just the supply side, it's the demand side. Demand is off the charts," he added. "This is one more example of why we need to pass the infrastructure bill. There are $17 billion in the President's infrastructure plan for ports alone and we need to deal with these long-term issues that have made us vulnerable to these kinds of bottlenecks when there are demand fluctuations, shocks and disruptions like the ones that have been caused by the pandemic."
The comments from the secretary come as Biden's $1.2 trillion infrastructure bill makes its way through Congress, where it has already passed the Senate but is now stalled in the House. The legislation includes money for roads, bridges and public transportation, and would also provide funds to reduce congestion and emissions near ports and airports.
Asked by Tapper if he was frustrated that House progressives' demands to not vote on the physical infrastructure bill until the social infrastructure bill was also ready for a vote, Buttigieg said both pieces of legislation are needed to address the current issues stemming from the pandemic, including inflation.
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Yeh on purpose!
There are bottlenecks all over. The government won’t tell the truth if it does find them, because the bottlenecks are in large part BECAUSE of government meddling.
Somewhere in a one room school there is a 5th grader who could sort this all out better that BUTT MAN PETE.
CLUELESS isn’t enough of a word..
Ditto what you said.
Just stay on paternity leave indefinitely Peter...it will resolve itself quicker that way.
When your pets go hungry because you can’t get pet food, when you have to put them down because you can’t get cat food and there’s no meat on the store shelves even for you to eat, you know EXACTLY who to blame.
Displaying Rocket science.
someone on another site made an excellent post last night that this is the result,at least in part, because CA enacted new green laws last October.
These big trucks have to meet very specific new green standards to operate in CA and of course very few trucks meet those standards.
Hmm.
I know, it’s always one thing or another. My honest opinion, these shot mandates have a lot of people leaving the workforce and then there are those who had it really good getting all of that unemployment money but since that is no longer being provided, I am not so sure.
Will bet you is is much more than HALF.
Goodnesswins is right in post #18. Regulations are strangling the trucking business, especially in California (where, of course, many of our ports are located).
From the link below:
“The trucking issue with California LA ports, ie the Port of Los Angeles (POLA) and the Port of Long Beach (POLB), is that all semi tractors have to be current with new California emissions standards. As a consequence, that mean trucks cannot be older than 3 years if they are to pick up or deliver containers at those ports. This issue wipes out approximately half of the fleet trucks used to move containers in/out of the port.”
https://community.hannity.com/t/why-are-ships-backed-up-off-the-coast-of-california/240433
That and California is putting unrealistic emission rules on the trucking industry.
But the good news, our rulers in DC will never face any kind of shortages.
Democrat voters
Dominion voting machines
Crooked election officials
And 2023 and 2024 and 2025...
Yes, all by design.
funder and cover-up from White House.
When Marxists come to power, America gets to experience what was common in the Soviet Union and is currently a way of life in Cuba and Venezuela for the masses. You also get bizarre commissars and propagandists like Buttigieg and the MSM to tell their lies.
The he supply chain issues will, with the left in charge, continue the same way the Depression went on for twelve years with them being n charge.
They.
Never.
Fix.
Anything.
EVER.
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