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Buttigieg earns ‘dumbest person in the administration’ label for wild claim about GOP and roads

June 15, 2023 | | Print Article

Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg’s wild claim linking a bill by GOP House lawmakers to protect the integrity of girls’ and women’s sports by restricting biological males from competition to a lack of money for roads is drawing attention to the openly gay cabinet official’s bizarre agenda-driven spin.

The former mayor of the smallish college town of South Bend, Indiana who had little experience to qualify him for his important position other than checking off a certain box, talked with Time magazine about the challenges of the job as the nation’s top infrastructure official and the backlash against the sexualizing of children that has led to numerous states passing a flurry of new laws which have been misrepresented as being an attack on LGBTQ+ people.

“Nothing is safe. Especially right now,” Buttigieg said. “When you have one side that has a maximalist commitment to tearing down every norm and law they don’t like. So, where does that put us? And by the way, why is it happening?”

“I think it’s happening because there are some people who find it easier to pick on really vulnerable young people than to explain why they voted no on money for roads and bridges,” Mayor Pete claimed.

In April, Republican House lawmakers voted 219-203 to restrict transgenders from playing on sports teams that until recently, had been reserved for biological females, a bill that has zero chance at becoming law if it somehow gets through the Senate and to President Joe Biden’s desk where he would veto it. But it is an important gesture by Congress to show that they understand that the “woke” left’s cultural revolution has gone too far, especially when it comes to the transgender movement.

Buttigieg was ridiculed for his stretch in connecting the two completely unrelated issues to the gullible journalists with conservative commentator Dana Loesch tweeting that “He is the dumbest person in the administration, and that is saying a lot.”

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Other reactions were even less flattering.

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In other Buttigieg-related news, a watchdog group is filing a lawsuit against the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) claiming that the agency is stonewalling on providing records on the secretary’s use of private government aircraft for travel.

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“Pete Buttigieg abused taxpayer dollars by using a private jet to fly domestically and internationally,” Americans for Public Trust (APT) executive director Caitlin Sutherland told Fox News Digital. “It’s been six months since we helped expose Secretary Buttigieg’s trips, but his agency refuses to tell the American people how much they’re on the hook for his extravagant travel arrangements.”

“Buttigieg’s FAA has stonewalled and refused to adhere to the law for releasing public records, so we’re filing suit on behalf of all Americans who deserve to know how their money is being spent by this administration,” she said.

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