Pete Buttigieg
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1,193 appearances
7 recordings
6 series
first heard Oct 2025
last heard 10 May
Pete Buttigieg’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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We couldn't print more dollars if we wanted to as the city of South Bend.
We had a cash budget, had to balance it every year.
If we took on debt, we really had to think hard about how we were going to pay on that debt.
We made sure that any time we're asking people to be paying revenue into the city,
they know what they're getting for that, whether it's police service or parks or trash pickup.
I don't think that's the worst metaphor to think about how things should work at the national level too, right?
We should believe that we're getting good services, good infrastructure.
That was obviously what I worked on when I was at the federal level as Secretary of Transportation.
We should get good national defense and all the other things that we as a country are
That's not true.
And I'm really glad you raised that because it's actually one of the biggest red herrings we had to deal with.
So this is a program to get EV chargers deployed by 2030.
The thought was, you know, by 2030, we think about half of the sales or we were hoping about half the sales of cars in the country.
would be EVs.
Now, in order to have that work well, we're going to need more chargers.
The market does a good job of delivering chargers in a lot of places, but there are other places where we found it was lower income or it was more rural, it was more spread out, and it just wasn't going to pencil for the private sector to do it, right?
So, we had a fund called NEVI.
I can't remember what the acronym was, but
The point was, it was, like you said, about $7 billion to buy down the difference, to subsidize or just outright build those chargers in places where they were needed.
And we made a couple of choices.
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