Pete Buttigieg
speaker
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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But I would agree that the last administration didn't do enough and didn't do enough early enough on the border.
And why do you think Biden looked the other way?
What was the strategy?
Was there a strategy?
Yeah, I think what happened was he was really looking to Congress to do it.
He came out of Congress.
He was a creature of Congress and thought, you know, Congress can forge a bipartisan since, you know, it's actually a bipartisan agreement among the American people on what to do, right?
Which is what most people believe, what I believe, which is let's make it harder to come in illegally and easier to come in legally and to get legal if you're not.
I mean, that's where most people are.
That's about 80% of the country.
Yeah, and that's where most of the space for compromise has been on the Hill.
And yet, you know, I think it was the 80s last time we had an actual bill to fix it.
So I think he, and this is speculating, I mean, I never really, you know, was in the middle of the immigration side of things.
But I think he felt like the way to do this was to get things done in Congress.
He felt that, you know, he'd managed to get the infrastructure bill done, IRA.
But what's interesting is when he finally gave up on Congress...
when it was clear that we just weren't going to get very far.
And meanwhile, you would have had that set of executive orders that came late in the term.
That had a major effect on the number of illegal crossings.
So you got to ask yourself if that executive order that happened toward the end, if that had been done in year one, year two,
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