Pete Buttigieg
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first heard Jul 2026
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Yeah, from the Secretary of Transportation.
And I was really proud of that.
Norman Mineta?
No, no, it was Anthony Foxx.
Oh, Anthony Foxx.
And it was a big deal for us.
Yeah.
But we actually did that project without federal funding because, partly because it would have been too hard to get and to use the federal funding.
That was the kind of thing I tried to work on and change when I was in Washington.
So what I'm saying is kind of from the top down in terms of like getting back in touch with our first principles and big ideas.
And from the bottom up in terms of looking at, okay, what actually works?
We should be ready to have everything look different, including things that are, because the reality is so different.
Yeah.
Including on things that we cherish.
We care a lot about the UN.
And, you know, in many ways, even though it's easy to take a shot at the UN, rhetorically, politically, and, you know, there's lots of justification for some of that.
But like, if you talk about the mission of, you know, preventing another world war, like as of today...
done pretty well at that.
But more broadly, the way that place works, the bureaucracy of it, the setup of it, the things that don't have any real effectual impact there, probably reflect the fact that that was set up in such a different time.
The Security Council was set up at a time when nine out of 10 people living in China were impoverished rural peasants.
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