Buttigieg: ‘Sincerest Form of Flattery’ Is When Republicans Who Voted Against the Infrastructure Bill Ask Funds from It

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BUTTIGIEG: “We went there to celebrate what they’re going to do to get pig iron on the river. Not a single person asked me about Republican-Democrat stuff among the residents there. They were just excited. There were a lot of people on Capitol Hill who voted no. I will say quite a few Republicans came over and voted with Democrats to get this done. A lot of the ones who voted against it have not hesitated to write us letters about how they’d like that funding to go to their districts which I take to be— and, you know, we’re going to do this without regard to politics. I just consider it in policy world, I’d call it the sincerest form of flattery, when they vote against your stuff — “