Pete Buttigieg

The nation’s transportation secretary usually holds one of the most public-facing roles in any presidential administration. A core aspect of the Cabinet job is to travel the country, doling out millions of public dollars and attending ribbon-cutting ceremonies for new bridges and overpasses and ports. Even by those standards, Pete Buttigieg has spent an inordinate amount of time in the national spotlight delivering the largesse of the big infrastructure and domestic...

The FAA has completed an environmental impact study on proposed construction projects that could transform O’Hare, and Transportation Sec. Pete Buttigieg was in Chicago to celebrate the occasion. NBC 5’s Karen Aguilar has the story.

Transportation Sec. Pete Buttigieg was in Chicago on Saturday, speaking to the city’s political leaders about efforts to encourage fair and equitable transportation options for all residents.

The day after Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg met with airline leaders to quiz them about widespread flight disruptions, his own flight was canceled and he wound up driving from Washington to New York. “That is happening to a lot of people, and that is exactly why we are paying close attention here to what can be done and how to…

Airlines are canceling more than 1,500 flights across the U.S. in one of the worst days yet in the summer travel season. Cancellations were especially high Thursday in the New York City area, where forecasts called for a chance of storms late in the day. At least one-fourth of all flights were scrubbed at LaGuardia Airport in New York and...

At least 15 people who attended a public affairs conference last week on Michigan’s Mackinac Island have tested positive for COVID-19, including U.S. Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg.

Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg announced $2.9 billion for competitive grants designed to improve U.S. transportation infrastructure.

U.S. vehicle safety regulators have issued final rules eliminating the need for highly automated and self-driving vehicles to need such controls.

The historic investment in EV chargers is part of the Biden administration’s broader agenda to combat climate change and advance the clean energy transition.

“We admire the range of American companies that have innovated, including Tesla, which did so much to make EVs possible in America,” Buttigieg said.

President Joe Biden visited the site of a Pittsburgh bridge collapse on Friday, saying it illustrated how weak infrastructure ‘can threaten lives’

Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg is pledging to tackle a rising U.S. epidemic of car fatalities

Greener aviation fuel is key to airlines’ commitments to cut carbon emissions, but supply is scarce.

As President Joe Biden gets set to sign a $1 trillion infrastructure package, many eyes are turning to Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg.

Pete Buttigieg’s baby son, Gus, is out of the hospital and “doing great.”

It was reported last week that Buttigieg had been on paid leave since mid-August to spend time with his husband, Chasten, and their twin babies, Penelope and Joseph.