Pete Buttigieg
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137 appearances
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first heard Jul 2026
last heard 8 Aug
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Well, when given the chance, Congress has to a Democratic led Congress has to establish accountability, first of all, around the naked corruption that is going on.
This is not a political question.
The idea that the American people shouldn't have been spending hundreds of millions of dollars of our taxes on retrofitting a secondhand jumbo jet.
The idea that there is something highly questionable about people from the President of the United States to a lot of other officials getting rich on stock trades while making decisions that move markets.
Dealing with that is not some kind of partisan conquest.
That's something that most Americans can actually come together around.
But also there's the day-to-day accountability that our democratic system is supposed to deliver.
See, this is part of the problem with gerrymandering.
If 9 out of 10 House districts are ones where you know who's going to win before the first vote is cast, then members of Congress don't feel a level of accountability.
They don't feel responsible for anything from big policy questions, like standing up to this Iran war, which is supposed to be Congress's job to declare or to stop, or their personal conduct, like trading stocks and getting rich, when no member of Congress should be trading stocks in the first place.
Yeah, I mean, the reality is if you have a common sense view that you share with most Americans, it will take radical change to actually act on it in today's Washington.
That's that's what I'm getting at.
I'm not talking about ideology.
I'm saying that in order to get anywhere, even as an ideological moderate.
You have to be ready for radical change in our institutions.
What does that look like?
Some of the changes I was just talking about around money and politics, around Congress and how elections work, certainly making sure that we have the voting rights reform and protections that are doubly important because of what has been done to systematically tear down black political representation in order to try to keep this Republican Congress in power.
But look, we've also got to recognize there are certain institutions that we have cherished as Democrats that are important institutions that probably can't and shouldn't go back to the old way.
It was criminally wrong to basically gut the Department of Education as they have done.
I also don't think our project is to make the Department of Education look just the way it looked the minute before Donald Trump got here.
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