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'll see how the Trump administration does in completing the program.
But you can't really say whether it was a success or a failure until the program's been run, but they move the goalposts.
And I'm not challenging you that there's waste, that there's bad things that happen in government spending that I don't like.
So my experience in transportation is that most of it goes to very good use.
I mean, if you just break it down, it goes to things that keep the aviation sector operating safely.
It goes to things like highways, roads, and bridges.
That was the biggest slug of funding that we had in the infrastructure package.
And when the general or the government accountability office or the inspector general, by the way, institutions that Trump is demolishing right now, but the organizations that do the auditing and really dig in on a bipartisan basis, often in terms of outright fraud, they're going to come in at a number that's well below 1%.
But I've also seen with my own eyes how- Do you think 99 cents is effective?
No, I don't.
This comes to the other part of what I was going to say.
I mean, I think about my time in the military, for example.
You know, there was a building, I think it was Leatherneck, maybe it was Kandahar, but I think it was Leatherneck.
When I traveled out there, there was a building that had taken years to go up.
I think it was like $30 million.
And just before they were about to activate it, they tore it back down.
I mean, it's just a complete boondoggle.
And we see stuff like that happening for sure.
We see cost escalations on a lot of projects.
So it's not, you know, it's not the same as fraud.
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