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Pete Buttigieg: “We took apart the small government that I was in charge of…”

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

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Published | Video Starts at 23:46

So I would love in theory, a Department of Government efficiency that was actually about government Efficiency, I think that would make tons of sense. It's what I tried to do again when I was mayor. We took apart the small government that I was in charge of. It was about a $300 million operation, and put it back together and found that it could be radically more efficient in many ways. And we need to do that at the federal level. We need to. How much money did you take out from that? 300? We, we used it better, I would put it that way. (23:46–23:55)

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