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Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg To Visit Port Of Baltimore

BALTIMORE (WJZ) -- Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg is due to visit the Port of Baltimore later this week.

According to his office, Buttigieg plans to highlight investments laid out in a bipartisan infrastructure proposal, which would include money to modernize and maintain U.S. ports.

Buttigieg is expected to take a tour, meet with port officials and workers, and deliver a speech.

Further details of the secretary's visit are forthcoming.

The $579 billion package would include $16 billion for ports and waterways, according to a White House fact sheet released last week.

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