Does Pete Buttigieg know how to budget?

For a former Navy intelligence officer and McKinsey alum, Pete Buttigieg seems astoundingly awful at personal finance.

The transportation secretary now earns a pretty $221,400 taxpayer-funded salary. Yet Buttigieg and husband Chasten evidently believe the rent in Washington, D.C., is just too damn high. In a Washington Post profile on the former South Bend-based couple adjusting to life in the Beltway, Chasten lamented that he couldn’t afford a one-bedroom apartment with a den in their luxury Eastern Market building.