CNN Host Grills Pete Buttigieg Over Taking Paid Family Leave, Buttigieg Gives Pathetic Response (VIDEO)
Failed 2020 presidential candidate and current Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg, who recently returned from six weeks of paternity leave, hypocritically defended Democrats’ decision to exclude paid family leave from their funding bill on Sunday, stating that “nobody gets everything that they want” in such a massive bill.
On Sunday’s “State of the Union,” CNN’s Dana Bash challenged Buttigieg on the topic, playing a footage of the former Democratic presidential candidate pushing for paid family leave on the same show just two weeks previously.
“It is long past time to make it possible for every American, mother, and father, to take care of their children when a new child arrives in the family,” Buttigieg said earlier this month.
“What do you say to the more than 100 million Americans who don’t have access to the kind of paid family leave you just benefited from and don’t understand why the administration didn’t fight harder to keep it in the bill?” On Sunday,
