On Sunday, Department of Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg was confronted by Fox News Sunday host Chris Wallace over having made the false claim that President Biden’s $2 trillion infrastructure plan will create 19 million more jobs. Wallace directly confronted Buttigieg, snapping, “Why mislead folks?”
Wallace started by saying he was offering a fact-check of how the Biden administration was “selling this plan,” adding, “You all like to say that U.S. infrastructure is ranked 13th in the world,” then citing Washington Post reporter Charles Lane noting that the claim included small countries such as Singapore, Hong Kong and the United Arab Emirates, while among the ten largest countries geographically in the world, including China and Russia, the United States ranked first in infrastructure.
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