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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, 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." 
True
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
April 24, 2019
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Latest Fact-Checks About Pete Buttigieg

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Viral image
stated on March 27, 2024 a Facebook post
“Buttigieg praises cargo ship for helping dismantle racism in American roads.”
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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 • 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
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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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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