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Cotton: Buttigieg ‘Completely Unqualified to Handle the Supply Chain Crisis'

Wednesday on Twitter, Sen. Tom Cotton (R-AR) slammed incompetent Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg for his inability to handle the supply chain crisis afflicting American businesses and families.

“Pete Buttigieg is completely unqualified to handle the supply chain crisis,” Cotton tweeted. “The only reason he’s the Secretary of Transportation is because he endorsed Joe Biden. Even Pete knows it.”

On any given day, between 50 to 90 vessels are waiting outside the port of Los Angeles and Long Beach to deliver freight. The delays are causing a lack of container and warehouse space because trucking companies are unable to find enough drivers to move the freight.

“These challenges are definitely going to continue in the months and years ahead,” Buttigieg said last week on Bloomberg, not exactly reassuringly. “This is one more reason why we do need to deliver this infrastructure package, so that we can have a more resilient, flexible physical infrastructure to support our supply chain in this country.”

Like diversity hire Buttigieg, who has been preoccupied with his maternity leave, the Democrats’ infrastructure package will do nothing to resolve the supply chain crisis, which the Democrats brought on in the first place.

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Pete Buttigieg

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President Biden’s Secretary of Transportation

On December 15, 2020, President-elect Joe Biden selected Buttigieg as his nominee for Secretary of Transportation. Of his nomination, President Biden said: “Mayor Pete Buttigieg is a patriot and a problem-solver who speaks to the best of who we are as a nation. I am nominating him for Secretary of Transportation because this position stands at the nexus of so many of the interlocking challenges and opportunities ahead of us. Jobs, infrastructure, equity, and climate all come together at the DOT [Department of Transportation], the site of some of our most ambitious plans to build back better. I trust Mayor Pete to lead this work with focus, decency, and a bold vision — he will bring people together to get big things done.”

Several Republican senators criticized the Buttigieg nomination. Sen. Ted Cruz of Texas said through a spokesperson that he voted against the nominee, because he had a “lack of experience on most transportation issues” and marched “in lockstep” with Biden’s “radical energy policy.” Sen. Marsha Blackburn of Tennessee said she was concerned that the nominee would “put the administration’s environmental goals ahead of some very basic changes to federal policy that would lighten regulatory load on county and city mayors trying to get transportation projects off the ground.” And Sen. Rick Scott of Florida wrote on Twitter that he was opposing Buttigieg because the nominee favored raising the tax on gasoline “to support government’s wasteful spending.”

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