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Pete Buttigieg becomes first openly gay U.S. transportation secretary following U.S. Senate confirmation to the post this week
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Wednesday, 03 February 2021 02:02
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CLEVELANDURBANNEWS.COM, COLUMBUS, Ohio –Former South Bend, Indiana mayor Pete Buttigieg,one of president Joe Biden's formidable rival's for president, among many, was confirmed by the Democratically-controlled U.S. Senate on Tuesday as transportation secretary, becoming the first openly gay man to serve on a U.S. presidential cabinet in American history.
He succeeds former transportation secretary Elaine Chao, a millionaire Trump appointee who resigned from the post early last month and the wife of U.S. Sen Mitch McConnell of Kentucky, the former longtime Senate majority leader.
Confirmed by a vote of 86-13 and along partisan lines, the 39-year-old Buttigieg said he looks forward to bringing reforms to the Department of Transportation from reducing greenhouse gas admissions to rebuilding roads and bridges and supporting Biden's ambitious climate and infrastructure agendas.
He said in a tweet after he was confirmed that he is elated and honored to serve.
“I’m honored and humbled by today’s vote in the Senate and ready to get to work,” said Buttigieg
His supporters were exited too and called his confirmation a historic moment in American history.
“Congratulations to Secretary Pete Buttigieg on his historic confirmation,” Alphonso David, president of Human Rights Campaign, an LGBTQ+ advocacy group, said after the vote. “This confirmation breaks through a barrier that has existed for too long, where LGBTQ identity served as an impediment to nomination or confirmation at the highest level of government.”
Last Updated on Wednesday, 03 February 2021 18:46
