- Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg said the economy would face dire consequences if U.S. railroads were to shut down from a strike
- Said Americans would have to boil their water or get bottled water because ‘water treatment plants would run out of the supplies’
- Claimed there would be 765,000 layoffs and the auto industry would shut down
- Buttigieg will speak with senators today to push them to vote for a House bill that forces rail workers to accept a deal struck with the White House in September
- Would stop a railroad worker strike by December 9