Pete Buttigieg reacts to historic cabinet role: “You can really feel the history swirling around us”
historic confirmation last month, which saw him become the first openly gay, Senate-confirmed member of a presidential cabinet.Buttigieg also discussed his plans for the Department of Transportation, why he still feels “imposter syndrome” despite his success, and how he reconciles being gay and Christian.Speaking to NBC News’ Savannah Sellers, Buttigieg noted the he could “feel the history swirling around us when [Vice President Kamala Harris] was swearing me in with my husband, Chasten, at my side.”Buttigieg, a former Naval reservist who served under the military’s Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell policy, also commented on the progress made that allows an openly gay man to serve in a presidential cabinet.“There have been times in living memory where