WASHINGTON – With his left hand on his mother’s bible held by his husband Chasten, Pete Buttigieg was sworn in as the nineteenth Secretary of Transportation by Vice-President Kamala Harris Wednesday morning, in the Vice-Presidential Ceremonial Office suite in the Eisenhower Old Executive office building.
According to the White House Pool reporter, Brittany Shepherd, the White House Correspondent for Yahoo! News, Harris, followed by Buttigieg and his husband Chasten and the Second Gentlemen Douglas Emhoff, entered the room at 9:40 am.
The event began at 9:30 am. Secretary-designate Buttigieg repeated his oath and was sworn in by 9:41. Chasten looked at his husband during the oath, and Shepherd noted what she termed “palpable emotion in his
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