“President Biden is doing what he has always done,” the Transportation secretary said.
Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg appears before the House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure on Capitol Hill, on Sept. 20, 2023, in Washington. | Mark Schiefelbein/AP PhotoTransportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg rejected a claim Sunday that President Joe Biden is joining the picket line of auto workers in Michigan only because former President Donald Trump announced a visit to the state.
“President Biden is doing what he has always done, which is to stand with American workers,” Buttigieg said on CNN’s “State of the Union.” “He is proud of being the most pro-union, pro-worker president, not only compared to the Trump administration, with its anti-union policies, but really compared to any modern president.”
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