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Pete Buttigieg: “My replacement at the Department of Transportation was…”

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

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Published | Video Starts at 1:02:25

This administration killed the direct file that would allow you to just do it yourself and not have to go through one of these companies. And on the airline side, they're starting to dismantle the. I mean, I'm not super surprised. Like, My replacement at the Department of Transportation was literally an airline lobbyist. inside baseball, but that's what they're doing. But anyway, if you ask me about the things I'm proudest of, because some of those things are in law, so they'd be harder to take apart. (1:02:25–1:02:32)

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Asserts that his successor at the Department of Transportation was an airline lobbyist.

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