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Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg said newly passed inflation-reducing legislation would improve living conditions in America and criticized the recent surge in flight cancellations across the United States.
In an exclusive interview with Fox News Digital on Tuesday in Port Tampa Bay, Fla., Buttigieg said, “I’m very happy that the consumer price index is up 0%, but it’s only 1%. A new $12.6 million grant: “What we have to see is a sustained cooling in that inflationary pressure, and that’s not coming anytime soon.”
Buttigieg said the bill would help Americans cut costs because data released in July by the U.S. Department of Labor showed annual inflation in the past 12 months to June reached 9.1%. . The Congressional Budget Office said the Inflation Reduction Act will have a “negligible” impact on 2022 inflation and little impact on 2023 inflation, depending on other factors such as the Federal Reserve. Says.
But Buttigieg said the legislation would ease the pain of inflation by cutting costs for things like prescription drugs, insulin for Medicare subscribers, home utility bills and electric cars.
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“These are steps to make life more affordable in the United States and are part of the solution when it comes to inflation,” Buttigieg said.
Buttigieg also touted the Department of Transportation’s efforts to help passengers whose flights have been canceled in the past few months. The secretary’s statement said Tuesday’s new report from flight tracking website FlightAware showed him more than 2,500 flight cancellations across domestic and international routes.
“We will enforce the requirement that you be entitled to a full cash refund in the event of such cancellation, and if a refund is not provided, please let us know as a department and we will follow up and enforce it,” Buttigieg said. Said.
The secretary said he sympathized with Americans who had recently experienced flight cancellations, and said he himself had canceled flights several times over the summer.
Buttigieg outlined new guidelines that expand passenger rights in long delays and other external environmental factors.
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“I put [the airlines] Please note that they plan to collect information about how they treat their customers… who get stuck,” Buttigieg said.
The Secretary of Transportation stopped by Tampa to talk about “Raise,” part of President Biden’s bipartisan infrastructure law. The grant is aimed at adding 800 new full-time jobs as well as adding additional capacity to the port. The grant will also reduce emissions at Port He’s Red Wing facility.
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Biden’s Inflation Control Act was signed into law by the president on Aug. 16, and many Democrats criticized Republican lawmakers for not supporting the bill.
“With this law, the American people won and special interests lost,” Biden said in his signature.
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Biden said the $739 billion inflation cut bill would increase taxes on Americans earning less than $400,000 while investing $369 billion in “energy security and climate change,” according to a Senate Democrat summary. He stressed that he would not.