Former Democratic presidential candidate Pete Buttigieg speaks after he was nominated to be Transportation Secretary by President-elect Joe Biden during a news conference at Biden’s transition headquarters on December 16, 2020 in Wilmington, Delaware.
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During his presidential campaign Pete Buttigieg liked to tout his down-to-earth, middle-class lifestyle: “You know, according to Forbes magazine, I am literally the only person on this stage who is not a millionaire or a billionaire,” Buttigieg said during the Democratic debates in 2019. True, but he was also in the midst of making an upper-class living.
The former South Bend, Indiana mayor, who was nominated to be Joe Biden’s transportation secretary, reported earning $800,000 to $1.8 million from January 2019 to December 2020 on a new financial disclosure form, which lists his income and assets in broad ranges.
Like other presidential candidates before him,…
