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Buttigieg ‘Not Waiting’ to Beat Clock on Renewing Highway Bill

  • DOT head touts relief plan, looks ahead to infrastructure

  • Focus will also shift to enabling safe summer travel

Bloomberg Government

By Lillianna Byington

March 15, 2021


Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg insisted that the Biden administration will move swiftly to reauthorize the highway bill, which is set to expire in a little over six months. “We’ve got a clock on everything we’re doing,” Buttigieg said on Monday. “We’re not waiting until September in order to act. Conversations are taking place right now.” Following passage of the $1.9 trillion Covid-19 stimulus relief package, Buttigieg is now dividing his time between carrying out the relief law and moving on to reauthorization of surface transportation programs. Buttigieg has attended two Oval Office conversations with President Joe Biden and bipartisan groups of lawmakers to talk about next steps on infrastructure, calling the conversations around the topic “very much live.”


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