As Townhall covered extensively since earlier this year, the Biden administration frequently touted its role in reaching a tentative agreement between rail companies and their labor unions in September that was supposed to avert a economically debilitating rail strike.
White House Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre emphasized that President Biden and cabinet secretaries including Tom Vilsack and Pete Buttigieg had been engaged in the negotiations and working on a resolution for months before the tentative agreement was heralded by President Biden as a “win for America.”
It seemed too good to be true just before the midterms for Biden to take a victory lap that saved the country from a strike that would have cost billions of dollars per day, and it turned out to be way too good to be true. Rail unions voted to reject the supposedly winning deal the Biden administration had put together, and Congress had to intervene at the 11th hour to enforce the contract by steamrolling the objections of union members.
But now, new information has emerged thanks to reporting in The Washington Free Beacon that shows not everyone the White House bragged about working on the deal in their all-hands-on-deck negotiations were entirely focused on reaching a tentative deal.
In a most unsurprising turn of events, Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg was not burning the midnight oil in the West Wing working on a deal with his fellow Biden cabinet members. Nope, he was on vacation — in Portugal.
“As rail contract negotiations entered a period of crisis in September, Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg phoned in from over 3,500 miles away during a vacation in Porto, Portugal, a posh tourist destination best known for its wine production,” the Beacon reported this week.
what a worthless piece of crap! him and his family are just users, taking tax paer money and not doing his job!
fire him now.