Buttigieg Pushes for Staff, Workers That ‘Look Like America’ (1)

Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg said he is reevaluating the equity reflected in the department’s policies—and the diversity of the department itself.

“We took a look at our own makeup as a department,” Buttigieg said at a South by Southwest event on Thursday. “It is Whiter and much more male than the country as a whole. We’ve got to change that.”

Buttigieg has emphasized equity as a major goal of his department, and criticized how previous administrations have invested in transportation. During the event, he pointed to the construction of the interstate highway system as an ongoing detriment to communities of ...