Republicans fault Buttigieg for time off with newborns. Democrats say he’s showing the need for paid parental leave.

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Republicans fault Buttigieg for time off with newborns. Democrats say he’s showing the need for paid parental leave.
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The transportation secretary and his husband became parents in August, welcoming a baby boy and girl.

“It’s been wonderful,” Buttigieg said during that appearance. “It’s everything people tell you to expect and more. I think the biggest thing that has surprised me is just how much joy there is, even sometimes in the hard parts. Don’t get me wrong — it’s the most demanding thing I think I’ve ever done, that Chasten and I have ever taken on, but it’s just amazing.”Fox News did not comment on Carlson’s criticism of Buttigieg.

After welcoming his third child in April of this year, Fox News host Jesse Watters said he supports paid paternity leave. “Now I am pro-paternity. I used to mock people for taking paternity, I used to think it was a big ruse, but now, you know, I wish I could take six weeks,” Watters said.Republican Sen. Tom Cotton also criticized Buttigieg’s absence, tweeting that he was “absent during a transportation crisis that is hurting working-class Americans.

the D.C. pizza chain &pizza on the Senate floor for not providing “paid paternity leave to its employees.” The pizza chain’s management, he said, thinks “babies are ‘bad for business.’”

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