Buttigieg hits back at Speaker Johnson's criticism of Biden's SOTU address
Source: The Hill
03/08/24 8:40 AM ET
Secretary of Transportation Pete Buttigieg fired back Friday at House Speaker Mike Johnson’s (R-La.) criticism that President Biden’s State of the Union address was “hyperpartisan” and “vitriolic.” During a Friday morning appearance on “CNN This Morning,” Buttigieg said some of Johnson’s comments were “literally false,” ticking off bipartisan legislation that Biden passed through Congress and signed into law.
“Well, the Speaker’s comments are literally false, because the president talked about a bipartisan infrastructure, a bipartisan border bill, his bipartisan unity agenda on confronting things like fentanyl and cancer,” Buttigieg said. “It’s a matter of fact. Pretty much everything — as far as I recall — that the president mentioned, there’s something probably 60-70 percent of Americans or more would support.”
The Transportation secretary acknowledged that Biden scrutinized Republicans in Congress over their support for slashing tax rates for wealthy individuals, but emphasized that the majority of U.S. voters side with Biden on the issue.
“But while that might be an issue that has strong partisan lines in Congress, out in the country, most Americans — Democrats, independents and Republicans — disagree with congressional Republicans’ agenda to cut taxes for the wealthy and agree with the president that it is wrong for billionaires in our biggest corporations to be paying a lower tax rate than firefighters and teachers,” he said.
Read more: https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/4518596-buttigieg-responds-mike-johnson-biden-sotu-address/
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Last night was a solid win for the dems! 
Asking for a friend.
