Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg said Sunday on NBC's “Meet the Press” that Vice President Kamala Harris changed her position after seeing what was happening in the world around her.
“When Vice President Harris first ran for president in 2019, she changed her position on several policy issues. She wanted to ban fracking, now she doesn't. She wanted penalties for illegal border crossings, now she doesn't. She supported Medicare for All, now she doesn't. And so to all those voters who are concerned about this, if she's elected, why wouldn't she change her mind again?”
Buttigieg said, “Well, I make policies based on what's going on in the world around me and what I can accomplish in Washington. I use immigration as an example to discuss what has changed in the last five years. Five years ago, there were very few climate policies under the Trump administration, and a lot of ideas were on the table. Now we have a climate policy called the Inflation Control Act, but it doesn't include a fracking ban. This policy is what's building a lot of factories right now, creating a new energy economy and good old jobs, like where I grew up and where J.D. Vance grew up. If Donald Trump follows through on his promise to repeal the Inflation Control Act, those jobs will be lost. These are the policies we're working on, and every election is about the future, not the past, and the future will be very different depending on who wins.”
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