WASHINGTON — Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg is hopeful that Congress can avoid a government shutdown. During an interview on NBC’s “Meet the Press” on Sunday, Buttigieg expressed his concern over the possibility of a shutdown, calling it “no way to run the government of the most powerful nation on Earth.”
“Some of the very same House Republicans who were lining up to try to make a partisan political issue of air travel disruptions are proposing cuts that will make it harder to modernize our systems,”
However, House Republicans are struggling to agree on how to prevent a shutdown. Roughly a dozen members oppose leadership’s plan to keep the government running without specific spending cuts.
Congress must fund the government every fiscal year to prevent a shutdown, with the deadline this year being September 30th at 11:59 p.m. While some GOP lawmakers are calling for significant spending cuts, Buttigieg warned that these cuts could make it challenging to modernize systems, including air travel.
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