BIDEN-HARRIS ADMIN/CABINET/TRANSPORTATION: “Over the past few weeks, Vice President-Elect Harris and I have been announcing nominees to our cabinet. They are people of the highest character, varied experiences and backgrounds who are going to help us beat this pandemic, keep us safe and secure, and build our economy back better than it ever was…
We’ll have more people of color than any cabinet ever, we’ll have more women than any cabinet ever. We’ll have a cabinet of barrier breakers, a cabinet of firsts…
And today… the first ever openly gay nominee to lead a cabinet department, and one of the youngest cabinet members ever… I’m proud to nominate its newest member, for Secretary of Transportation, I nominate Mayor Pete Buttigieg.”
-Joe Biden, “President-elect Biden and Vice President-elect Harris Announce the Secretary of Transportation,” YouTube.com, Dec. 16, 2020