U.S. Secretary of Transportation Pete Buttigieg and Michigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer spoke during a press conference in Detroit on Thursday, September 15, 2022. The press conference came after Buttigieg announced the Biden-Harris Administration awarded $104.6 million to the Michigan Department of Transportation (MDOT) from the Infrastructure for Rebuilding America (INFRA) competitive grant program. “Sometimes, fixing the damn roads means facing the repercussions of how the roads were originally built, who was included in that process and who was not, who was empowered and who was displaced,” Buttigieg said, referencing Gov. Gretchen Whitmer's famous slogan. Read the full story online and see more images by staff photographer @visual_david