Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg signaled in an interview with Leeland Vittert of NewsNation airing tonight that the Biden administration will not support a freight rail union strike ahead of the Holiday season. <blockquote>LEELAND VITTERT, NEWSNATION: Will the administration support the rail workers if they strike? TRANSPORTATION SECRETARY PETE BUTTIGIEG: Well, look, our goal right now is to make sure that doesn’t happen. And we’re urging the parties to get to the table and to do whatever it takes to prevent a shutdown. A shutdown is a scenario that is not acceptable. We got through the worst of the days in terms of the shipping backlogs. We've made headway on trucking. But if we don’t have a healthy, functioning strong rail system. ... VITTERT: Can the American economy deal with it if it happens? BUTTIGIEG: It would not be good. VITTERT: Catastrophic? BUTTIGIEG: We don’t have enough trucks or barges or ships in this country to make up for the rail network.</BLOCKQUOTE>