Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg on Sunday said that supply chain issues impacting industries across the globe could continue to play out for as long as the COVID-19 pandemic. “Look, there are so many things that are still happening in our economy—distortions, disruptions, things in our supply chain that are affecting prices that are clearly a direct consequence of the pandemic. Which is why the best thing we can do for our economy in the short term, and to deal with these transitory issues, is to put the pandemic behind us,” Buttigieg told host Chris Wallace on “Fox News Sunday.” Buttigieg said that in the long-term, inflation and supply chain issues could be improved by better infrastructure allowing goods to move smoothly within the country and better pro-family policies like childcare, both of which are included in President Joe Biden’s trillion-dollar bipartisan infrastructure ​plan and social spending package. He also touted more Americans getting fully vaccinated …