U.S. Secretary of Transportation Pete Buttigieg will be in New Jersey this week to talk about the Biden administration’s plans to expand supply chain infrastructure and job creation six months after the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act was signed into law.
Buttigieg will join Rep. Mikie Sherrill (D-Montclair) in Randolph on Thursday for a tour of the Advanced Manufacturing and Engineering Center at the County College of Morris.
On Friday, Buttigieg will hold an event in South Jersey with Rep. Andy Kim (D-Moorestown).
Kim and the Buttigieg are longtime friends. They attended Oxford together as Rhodes Scholars and each attending the other’s wedding. Kim endorsed Buttigieg’s presidential bid after New Jersey’s Cory Booker dropped out of the race.
Buttigieg joined Sherrill and other members of the New Jersey delegation in support of the Gateway Tunnel project last year, and also made an appearance in the 7th district on behalf of Rep. Tom Malinowski (D-Ringoes).
The Transportation Secretary will also visit the Port of New Jersey, where he’ll join Reps. Josh Gottheimer (D-Wyckoff) and Donald Payne (D-Newark). Also invited to meeting with Buttigieg: Laborers’ International Union of North America Vice President Raymond Pocino, Operating Engineers Local 825 business manager Greg Lalevee, IBEW President and Bergen County Commissioner Tom Sullivan, engineering company executive Joseph Sanzari, and New Jersey Gateway Program board member Balpreet Grewal-Virk.
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