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President Biden's Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg pushed back against MSNBC's Joy Reid's assertion that the infrastructure bill mostly benefited White guys and excluded other groups on MSNBC's the "ReidOut" Thursday.
MSNBC host Joy Reid asked, "Do you think it was a mistake looking back, because you know that the infrastructure bill that was passed was cleaved apart from what's now being called Build Back Better. And in a sense, it's a bill that's like a White guy employment act, right?"
"There's going to be a lot of working-class men that are going to get employed by that bill, but that's the very cohort that is much more likely to reward Republicans for that. That's who they vote for. Most, you know, working-class White guys vote Republican," she continued. "Do you think it was a mistake to split those bills?"
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"No, and I want to challenge the idea that this is a bill that only benefits one part of the population," Buttigieg said.
"I get where you're coming from and what you're saying. But … you look at something like the investment in transit – you know it's … commuters of color who are most likely to depend on that. You look at the jobs we're going to create. And yeah, they have been traditionally White and male, but it doesn't have to stay that way."
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