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Watch live: Buttigieg testifies on Transportation budget request before House panel

FILE - Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg speaks before the arrival of President Joe Biden at the construction site of the Hudson Tunnel Project, Tuesday, Jan. 31, 2023, in New York. Nearly 50 businesses and nonprofits including rideshare companies Uber and Lyft, industrial giant 3M and automaker Honda are pledging millions of dollars in initiatives to stem a "crisis" in road fatalities under a new federal effort announced Friday, Feb. 3. (AP Photo/John Minchillo)

Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg is slated to testify Thursday morning before the House Committee on Appropriations, Subcommittee on Transportation, Housing and Urban Development to defend the Biden administration’s fiscal 2024 budget request for the agency.

Thursday’s hearing is the first time Buttigieg will deliver a public testimony before the House Committee since the derailment of a Norfolk Southern train in East Palestine, Ohio, in early February.

The event is scheduled to begin at 10 a.m. ET.

Watch the video above.