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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If you concentrate power into your hands to an extreme extent, I might not like it because that's just not American.
But in general, if we're talking about taxation, I just want to make sure people who are really well off do their part to pay into a system that has helped them to thrive because that's what it takes for the next generation to do well and that's what it took for all of us to do well.
Yeah.
So I would love, in theory, a department of government efficiency that was actually about government efficiency.
I think that would make tons of sense.
It's what I tried to do again when I was mayor.
We took apart the small government that I was in charge of.
It was about a $300 million operation and put it back together and found that it could be radically more efficient in many ways.
And we need to do that at the federal level.
We used it better, I would put it that way.
There were areas where we were able to have a certain budget line item shrink, but in a city where the average per capita income was $18,000 or $19,000 per person when I came in, we weren't handing that over in tax breaks to wealthy residents.
We were putting it to other use on public safety and fundamentals like that.
But look, again, I agree that the doge we could have
could do a lot of really good work.
It could find duplicative regulations.
It could find cases where we could move from input-based to output-based evaluation of our programs.
In other words, instead of saying like, this is a meaningful program because how many billions went into it, figure out how much value came out of it.
But the doge we got
was one that couldn't even count, that put information sometimes that was wrong by three orders of magnitude on its own website, then erased its own information because they didn't believe in the transparency.
The Doge we got sent an email to every air traffic controller in the country
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