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Buttigieg pitches infrastructure needs to divided Congress

by Hope YenKevin Freking
| March 25, 2021 12:12 AM

WASHINGTON (AP) — Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg told a divided House panel Thursday that the country’s infrastructure needs exceed $1 trillion and improvements to roads, bridges and highways can no longer ignore the reality of climate change, calling inaction “a threat to our collective future.”

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