The $25 million grant is part of the Rebuilding America's Infrastructure with Sustainability and Equity, or RAISE, program.

Tell City, like many Hoosier communities along the Ohio River, relies heavily on barge traffic to fuel its local economy. An integral part of that shipping network is the Tell City River Port, where Buttigieg started his visit.

Pete Buttigieg, sworn in Wednesday as transportation secretary, urged his 55,000 employees to embrace "imaginative, bold, forward thinking."

As transportation secretary, Former South Bend Mayor Pete Buttigieg will face an airline and public transportation industry reeling from the coronavirus pandemic, as well as an aging infrastructure system.

Pete Buttigieg won Senate approval Tuesday as transportation secretary, the first openly gay person to be confirmed to a Cabinet post. He'll be tasked with advancing President Joe Biden's ambitious agenda of rebuilding the nation's infrastructure and fighting climate change.

The Commerce Committee approved the nomination of Pete Buttigieg, a 39-year-old former mayor of South Bend, Indiana, on a 21-3 vote.

President Joe Biden's nominee for secretary of transportation, Pete Buttigieg, is pledging to carry out the administration's ambitious agenda to rebuild the nation's infrastructure, calling it a "generational opportunity" to create new jobs, fight economic inequality and stem climate change.

At his Senate committee hearing on Thursday, former South Bend Mayor and U.S. Transportation Secretary nominee Pete Buttigieg promised to work with Congress to rebuild the country's infrastructure.

Pete Buttigieg was headed down a smooth path to quick confirmation, pledging to senators on Thursday to work with them to carry out the Biden administration's ambitious agenda to rebuild the nation's infrastructure.

President-elect Joe Biden introduced onetime Democratic primary rival Pete Buttigieg on Wednesday as his nominee for transportation secretary, saying the 38-year-old can be "a new voice" in the fight against economic inequality, institutional racism and climate change.