Sec. Buttigieg: Republicans Are Creating Problems at the Border So They Can Blame Us

>>BUTTIGIEG: "That's pretty rich coming from a guy who is prepared to stop air traffic control staffing. We see a repeated pattern here, which is creating a problem or contributing to a problem and then trying to score points off of that same problem. We see at the border. We see it with transportation. Some of these same Republican congressmen who lined up to try to make a partisan issue out of the flight disruptions happening last year because of Covid now they are here threatening to get in the way of air traffic controllers getting paid, getting trained and even putting out proposals that would stop us or delay us from modernizing computer systems. Some of the same Republican congressmen who lined up trying to score political points off the pain of the people who faced the East Palestine train derailment had year are pushing for cuts that would reduce railroad safety inspections. 11,000 miles of track less getting inspected under some of these cuts that House Republicans are proposing. So at a certain point they need to make clear whether they are serious or whether this is just politics. They have a job to do, and that is to actually run the government, keep the American people safe and make sure – whether we are talking about transportation or any other critical function of government, keep that running in a way that actually addresses these problems."