Why Pete Buttigieg welcomes GOP investigations
Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg testifies at a hearing of the Senate Subcommittee on Transportation, Housing and Urban Development, and Related Agencieson April 28. Photo: Nicholas Kamm / AFP via Getty Images.
Buttigieg is the rare Democrat who not only agrees to appear on conservative media like Fox News, but actually seems to enjoy it. The hearings will give him another platform he's eager to use. He said he's willing to engage "where there is a contest over what’s the right thing to do, where people object to our efforts to reduce the impact of transportation on the climate, or where people have a problem with us trying to make sure that this round of infrastructure investment is equitable.
"I'm very much in favor of legitimate oversight. Absolutely. I mean, I've testified before Congress ... literally hundreds of times," he said on CBS, pointing to his 38 years as director of NIAID.Even while in the minority, Republicans on the House Oversight Committee have signaled their intent to look into federal spending on infrastructure and the origins of COVID-19.
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