‘That is bullsh-t’: Pete Buttigieg slams Trump’s anti-DEI campaign

Former Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg appeared on “The Breakfast Club” radio present Thursday to deal with the New York Put up’s inflammatory claims that air site visitors management upgrades have been delayed as a result of the Biden administration spent $80 billion on grants for range, fairness, and inclusion efforts.

Former Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg speaks at a information convention on resolving client complaints towards airways in April 2024.

“Obviously, I think that’s bullshit,” Buttigieg stated. “We’re speaking about transportation funding that they are now eliminating. So, Milwaukee, sixth Road: We funded a venture—$34 million—to assist make a set of enhancements to a really harmful avenue the place there’ve been a variety of crashes, and that has divided the neighborhood.

He continued, “They’re also going to improve the sewer while they’re at it. I mean, this is bread-and-butter stuff that’s going to make the city better off. The Trump administration killed that grant because the application talked about ‘equity.’ It talked about one of the reasons for funding this project being that that neighborhood had been underinvested in.”

Buttigieg went on to name out precisely what the Trump administration means when it calls one thing “DEI.”

“When they talk about ‘DEI grants,’ often they’re talking about fixing roads and bridges that happened to go into a Black neighborhood or a low-income area,” he stated.

Buttigieg continued to checklist quite a lot of ways in which the Trump administration’s racist utility of “DEI” is unsafe for communities in want of infrastructure upgrades. He additionally famous that the NY Put up article supplied no proof supporting its $80 billion claims.

Buttigieg, who has gained a repute for excelling in new media boards, additionally identified that his alternative on the Division of Transportation, former actuality TV star Sean Duffy, was beforehand an airline lobbyist—whereas Buttigieg was a extra stringent regulator of the airline business. 

There’s a stark distinction between an administration that believes the federal government ought to make on a regular basis People’ lives higher and one which goals to deify the rich.