Secretary Pete

Brian Tyler Cohen, with DOT Sec'y Pete Buttigieg

• Year 1 - get the Infrastructure bill passed
• Year 2 - get all the programs stood up, and the projects identified
• Year 3 - get the money out the door, to where it's needed, and get the projects started
• "Buy American" requirements provide incentive to create American jobs and American manufacturing
• Baltimore Harbor Tunnel opened in 1873, and the Hudson River Tunnel in NYC was started in 1920 - time for a few upgrades
• 2700 bridges, and 70,000 miles of highway, tagged for repair &/or redesign

BTW, when was the last time we heard a DOT Secretary well enough versed in highway safety that he could talk coherently about "after-crash care" as a component of paring back the 40,000 traffic fatalities every year?

If you're into bombast and fuckery, hire a Republican.

If you want competence and effectiveness on a budget, go with the Democrats.

BTW 2, when Republicans balk at raising the debt limit, keep in mind that one of their shitty little maneuvers will likely be to get Biden to cut back on funding the infrastructure projects, so they can turn around and blame Biden for not coming thru on the deal. You heard it here first.