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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Me, no, but I will tell you, for example, after 9-11... Wait, wait, you're on a podcast commenting about immigration.
I'm worried about how most Americans feel.
Has it crossed your mind that if right now they started by going for people who are illegal...
And then they started roughing up people who are citizens, but who are speaking up against the administration, that even if you feel safe now, in a country where that sort of thing can be done, where people can, you know, where even comedians could lose their jobs for criticizing the government, does any part of you wonder if that might ever come for you?
But that didn't mean it was okay, right?
I guess what I'm telling you is if you take the amount of money that it costs to do a full-scale military deployment in an American city, and you just used it on improving funding for the police and mental health and a whole lot of other things, you probably get a pretty good result that way too.
But I know there are a lot of people, and I have heard personal direct examples of people who are in some cases U.S.
citizens or in other cases here illegally.
who no longer think it's even okay to go outside, who ask people to run errands for them because of the atmosphere that has been created in Washington, D.C.
So it's definitely not safer for them.
Yeah, and in the spirit of fairness, I should say this is the only time I've, outside of military, it's the only time I've ever worked in the federal government.
So I can't benchmark, you know, to compare one White House to another or one president to another.
But I'll tell you what my experience was like.
There's a high level of ambition trying to get big things done quickly, especially in the first two years when it felt like there was that opportunity to work with both houses of Congress to make it happen, including just a ton of energy going into, well, among other things, spending time with folks like Joe Manchin, trying to make sure that we held together that coalition to do things like the infrastructure law.
There were calls I agree with.
There were calls I disagreed with.
There were also a lot of times when it looked like something wasn't going to happen and then somehow it happened.
And that was where I do think it helped to have a president who spent as much time as he did in the Senate because it really felt like the infrastructure bill was dead.
We forget this now because it happened and it's kind of hard to imagine it was any other way, but...
It was proclaimed dead many, many times in that summer of 2021 before it got done.
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