"So, Trump says, 'We're going to release the files, we're going to release the files, we're going to release the files.' And then he says, 'We're not going to release the files,'" Buttigieg told hosts.

Pete Buttigieg is no longer in the Cabinet or actively campaigning, but this week, the former Transportation secretary stepped back into the national political spotlight with a pair of interviews that touched on LGBTQ + rights, authoritarianism, and the internal tensions facing the Democratic Party.

During the July 28 edition of the news program Morning Edition, host Steve Inskeep brought up former President Barack Obama’s Democratic Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel, who agreed with the transphobic talking point that “a man cannot become a woman” during a recent interview with conservative pundit Megyn Kelly.

Koh pushed Buttigieg to speculate about what is in the Epstein files, and he noted that it’s “extraordinary” that Republicans “decided they would rather shut down the entire United States House of Representatives for two months rather than face a vote on this.”

What his department was really interested in was handing out hundreds of diversity, equity and inclusion grants totaling more than $80 billion over four years — at least half of the DOT’s

Gay democrat Pete Buttigieg has weighed in on trans rights, including trans athletes’ participation in sports, declaring that they shouldn’t be decided by “politicians in Washington”. In light of President Donald Trump’s anti-trans athletes in sports executive order,

Pete Buttigieg Says Dems Have Become ‘Too Attached’ To ‘Failing’ Status Quo Former Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg said in an interview with NPR on Monday that the Democratic Party needs to move on from its “failing” status quo.

Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy is launching a department-wide review into the Biden administration’s alleged neglect of safety concerns regarding wind projects being constructed near transportation infrastructure.