Senate Republicans' potential embrace of a $1 trillion infrastructure package is an encouraging sign a bipartisan deal could be reached, Transportation Sec. Pete Buttigieg said on ThisWeekABC.
"Remember, the rescue dollars, those went out to cities, to states, to small businesses, rural hospitals, for schools," Buttigieg said."We don't have to spend those same dollars twice. Let's keep our commitments."
However economists, like former Clinton Treasury Secretary Larry Summers, have said the idea of reallocating unused COVID-19 relief aid is a smart move going forward.,"Spreading the spending out over the long term and applying to public investments that increase productive potential is the best way forward.”secretary if the nation was prepared for the 37 million Americans expected to travel over the Memorial Day weekend.
"Airline schedules have been reduced dramatically over the past year for obvious reasons. There have been layoffs, reductions. You can't get a rental car. Were we fully prepared for this travel surge?" Raddatz asked. "I'm thrilled to see America getting back on the move," Buttigieg said."We're not back to normal yet or we're not out of the woods yet as a country with this pandemic"
"We are coming out of the biggest shocks the modern American transportation system has ever seen," Buttigieg added."And so, the system is getting back into gear."
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