Former Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg wasted more than $80 billion on diversity, equity, and inclusion grants and climate programs instead of fixing the nation’s air traffic control systems, Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy told Newsmax on Monday.

“Well, I think this is the first time that we’re seeing the media really report on what happened over the course of the last four years under Buttigieg and [former President Joe] Biden,” Duffy told “Rob Schmitt Tonight.”

“There wasn’t a focus on building big, beautiful projects that connect people. It was really about spending infrastructure money to drive an ideological agenda, whether it be the green agenda or the diversity, equity, and inclusion agenda.”

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