Joe Biden expected to nominate Pete Buttigieg for transportation secretary, dealing a blow to former Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel ...Middle East

Former South Bend Mayor Pete Buttigieg is expected to be nominated by President-Elect Joe Biden to serve as Secretary of Transportation, which if confirmed by the U.S. Senate, would make him the first LGBTQ candidate ever named to a White House Cabinet, sources familiar with the decision confirmed Tuesday. The historic choice of Buttigieg, however, dealt a blow to former Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel, whose behind-the-scenes pursuit of the transportation post was met with vocal opposition from top progressives and African Americans within the Democratic Party over his City Hall response to the 2014 police murder of Black teenager Laquan McDonald.

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