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Pete Buttigieg: “Department of Transportation... going to cut the target for…”

Featuring: Pete Buttigieg, Democratic | Former Secretary of Transportation, Former Mayor of South Bend | National

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Published | Video Starts at 09:14

If they're doing stuff like this and posting memes all day, are they attending to the actual issues that Americans are most concerned about in transportation? You know, we just saw quietly a Friday news dump out of the Department of Transportation... going to cut the target for air traffic control hiring, slash the air traffic control targets by about 2000. I'm very puzzled by this. I don't know why you would be cutting down targets for air traffic control when the one thing I think most of us agree on is that there's a shortage around air traffic control. (09:14–09:54)

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