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Pete Buttigieg: “If we can come to an agreement on at least part of what we ought to do, then let’s at least try to do that part…”

On the recordMay 10, 2021
If we can come to an agreement on at least part of what we ought to do, then let’s at least try to do that part together. This negotiation is about seeing how much we can find some kind of common ground. I would like to believe that if there’s any area of domestic policy left that we can find common ground on it is infrastructure.
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Pete Buttigieg
Democratic · Indiana
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msnbc.com

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Buttigieg discusses the importance of finding bipartisan agreement on infrastructure.

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