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Marjorie Taylor Greene: Deserving a taxpayer-funded paycheck is about job performance, not about personalities or identity politics. Let's all…

On the recordNovember 7, 2023
Deserving a taxpayer-funded paycheck is about job performance, not about personalities or identity politics. Let's all recall that Pete Buttigieg was formerly a mayor and was well known as ``Pothole Pete'' for not repairing all the potholes in the roads in the town that he served. I assure you; this is about defunding his paycheck to $1, which I think is $1 too high for a Secretary of Transportation who is failing the American people when it comes to transportation. While implementing his tyrannical climate agenda through his office and preaching for the government to curb carbon emissions, Pete Buttigieg has reportedly taken at least 18 taxpayer-funded flights on private jets managed by the FAA. One of these flights was taken to receive an award from a Canadian gay rights organization for advancing LGBTQ rights. American taxpayers don't want to pay for Pete Buttigieg to get awards for the way people have sex. That is not what the Secretary of Transportation should be doing. These fraudulent actions of Secretary Buttigieg illustrate that he is not to be trusted in leading our Department of Transportation. While Secretary Buttigieg was taking taxpayer-funded, carbon-emitting private jets to receive LGBTQ awards, he failed to serve the Americans in East Palestine who were devastated by the train derailment and chemical spill earlier this year. In response to why he hadn't visited the community, he stated that he would visit when the time is right.…
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Marjorie Taylor Greene
Republican · Georgia
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Nov 7, 2023

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