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Pete Buttigieg

Pete Buttigieg

Pete Buttigieg was the Transportation secretary under President Joe Biden. Buttigieg was elected mayor of South Bend, Ind., in 2011 and was re-elected in 2015. He decided not to seek re-election and his term ended in January 2020. From 2009 to 2017, he served in the U.S. Navy Reserve and was a lieutenant. He received a bachelor’s degree in history and literature from Harvard College and a first-class honors bachelor’s degree in philosophy, politics and economics from Pembroke College as a Rhodes Scholar. He ran for president in the 2020 Democratic primaries.

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Pete Buttigieg
Pete Buttigieg
stated on February 18, 2025 an X post:
“I am not making this up: Republicans have introduced legislation … to increase your bank fees."
Mostly False
By Caleb McCullough • February 26, 2025
Pete Buttigieg
Pete Buttigieg
stated on August 11, 2024 CNN's State of the Union:
JD Vance holds “anti-marriage-equality views.”
Half-True
By Grace Abels • August 16, 2024
Pete Buttigieg
Pete Buttigieg
stated on August 11, 2024 an interview on CNN State of the Union:
Gov. Tim Walz delivered paid family leave in Minnesota but “Republicans are blocking” a Biden-Harris proposal.
Mostly True
By Amy Sherman • August 16, 2024
Pete Buttigieg
Pete Buttigieg
stated on July 28, 2024 an interview on Fox News Sunday:
“Even before the pandemic, America went into a manufacturing recession.”
Mostly True
By Louis Jacobson • July 31, 2024
Pete Buttigieg
Pete Buttigieg
stated on March 10, 2024 an interview on ABC's "This Week":
The stock market “hit an all-time high under President Biden and not under President Trump."
Mostly False
By Louis Jacobson • March 11, 2024
Pete Buttigieg
Pete Buttigieg
stated on February 21, 2023 a tweet:
Sen. Marco Rubio signed a 2021 letter that “supports waivers that would reduce visual track inspections.”
Mostly False
By Madison Czopek • March 2, 2023
Pete Buttigieg
Pete Buttigieg
stated on April 6, 2021 an interview with The Grio:
“There is racism physically built into some of our highways.”
True
By Louis Jacobson • April 15, 2021
Pete Buttigieg
Pete Buttigieg
stated on April 4, 2021 an interview on NBC's "Meet the Press":
President Joe Biden’s infrastructure proposal “is fully paid for. Across 15 years, it would raise all of the revenue needed for these once-in-a-lifetime investments."
Mostly True
By Louis Jacobson • April 7, 2021
Pete Buttigieg
Pete Buttigieg
stated on February 21, 2020 a video ad released by the Pete Buttigieg for President campaign:
“If you like your private plan, you can keep it.”
Mostly False
By Shefali Luthra • February 25, 2020
Pete Buttigieg
Pete Buttigieg
stated on February 22, 2020 a speech:
Says Bernie Sanders would “go beyond reform and reorder the economy in ways most Democrats — let alone most Americans — don’t support."
Mostly False
By Louis Jacobson • February 25, 2020
Pete Buttigieg
Pete Buttigieg
stated on February 19, 2020 the Democratic debate in Nevada:
The budget hole in Bernie Sanders’ plans “is bigger than the size of the entire economy of the United States."
Half-True
By Jon Greenberg • February 20, 2020
Pete Buttigieg
Pete Buttigieg
stated on January 26, 2020 a Fox News town hall in Des Moines:
"More than 80% of Republicans think we ought to at least be doing universal background checks." 
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By Amy Sherman • January 29, 2020
Pete Buttigieg
Pete Buttigieg
stated on December 9, 2019 an interview published by The Root:
Says that in South Bend, Ind., the "black poverty fell by more than half on my watch."
Mostly False
By Miriam Valverde • December 12, 2019
Pete Buttigieg
Pete Buttigieg
stated on November 20, 2019 Democratic primary debate in Atlanta:
"The president had to confess in writing, in court to illegally diverting charitable contributions that were supposed to go to veterans."
False
By Miriam Valverde • November 21, 2019
Pete Buttigieg
Pete Buttigieg
stated on October 30, 2019 an interview:
"When it comes to electability, every single time my party has won the presidency in the last 50 years, it’s been with a candidate who was new on the national scene, hadn’t spent a lot of time in Washington, and represented a new generation of leadership."
Mostly True
By Miriam Valverde • November 5, 2019
Pete Buttigieg
Pete Buttigieg
stated on October 15, 2019 a Democratic presidential debate:
Americans "say that what they want is a choice" to join a single-payer system like Medicare rather than ending private insurance.
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By Louis Jacobson • October 16, 2019
Pete Buttigieg
Pete Buttigieg
stated on August 28, 2019 a tweet:
Says President Donald Trump has been "taking money Congress authorized to protect people facing disaster in order to indefinitely detain asylum seekers."
Half-True
By Louis Jacobson • August 30, 2019
Pete Buttigieg
Pete Buttigieg
stated on August 5, 2019 a Medium post:
"The Trump Administration cut funding allocated to the Department of Homeland Security to combat white nationalism."
Half-True
By Amy Sherman • August 9, 2019
Pete Buttigieg
Pete Buttigieg
stated on July 4, 2019 an event in Carrol, Iowa:
"A black person is four times as likely as a white person to be incarcerated for the exact same crime."
Mostly False
By Louis Jacobson • July 10, 2019
Pete Buttigieg
Pete Buttigieg
stated on April 22, 2019 a town hall:
Says he has "more executive experience than the vice president."  
Mostly False
By Tom Kertscher • April 24, 2019
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Latest Fact-Checks About Pete Buttigieg

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stated on March 27, 2024 a Facebook post:
“Buttigieg praises cargo ship for helping dismantle racism in American roads.”
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By Ciara O'Rourke • March 29, 2024
Facebook posts
Facebook posts
stated on February 25, 2020 a Facebook post:
Says a photo of Pete Buttigieg in a military uniform was staged.
Pants on Fire!
By Daniel Funke, Ciara O'Rourke • February 27, 2020
Facebook posts
Facebook posts
stated on February 10, 2020 a Facebook post:
“Violent crime in South Bend doubled during Mayor Pete’s tenure.”
Mostly False
By Tom Kertscher • February 25, 2020
Facebook posts
Facebook posts
stated on February 12, 2020 a Facebook post:
A photo of Pete Buttigieg in a military uniform without visible patches shows that “he is a fraud.”
Pants on Fire!
By Daniel Funke • February 19, 2020
Bloggers
Bloggers
stated on September 6, 2019 a blog post:
“Pete Buttigieg claims Bible says babies can be aborted ‘up to their first breath.’”
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By Ciara O'Rourke • February 19, 2020
Amy Klobuchar
Amy Klobuchar
stated on December 20, 2019 the sixth Democratic presidential debate:
Says Pete Buttigieg ran statewide in Indiana and "lost by 20 points."
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By Aaron Sharockman • December 20, 2019
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