Pete Buttigieg calls the GOP obsession with LGBTQ+ people “maddening”

Secretary of Transportation Pete Buttigieg
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Out Secretary of Transportation Pete Buttigieg called out House Republicans’ obsession with restricting the rights of LGBTQ+ people while the American middle and working classes face more substantial problems.

“When I’m out in Wheeling, West Virginia, or Pittsburgh at the airport or anywhere else, the questions are not about beer bottles or drag queens,” Buttigieg told the National Association of Hispanic Journalists this week, referring to the months of outrage coming from conservatives about trans influencer Dylan Mulvaney’s partnership with Bud Light. “The questions are about making sure that we can deliver these transportation assets that people can count on.”

In the wide-ranging interview, Buttigieg was asked about how House Republicans voted to remove funding for…

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