Rebecca Shabad

President-elect Joe Biden will introduce Pete Buttigieg on Wednesday as his nominee for transportation secretary. Biden will hold the event with Vice President-elect Kamala Harris in Wilmington, Delaware, around 11:45 a.m. ET. An advisory from the Biden transition team described Buttigieg, the openly gay former mayor of South Bend, Indiana, as “a barrier-breaking and transformational public servant from the industrial Midwest who embodies a new generation of American leadership.” If confirmed by the Senate, the Biden transition said, Buttigieg would work to implement Biden’s agenda by “rebuilding modern, sustainable infrastructure nationwide and creating millions of good-paying union jobs.” Buttigieg would also […]