President Joe Biden’s administration is targeting Fox News star Tucker Carlson, one top critic said — and one of his top cabinet secretaries has “declared war” on the conservative news host.
Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg isn’t back at work from his paternity leave.
Carlson took aim at Buttigieg’s absence earlier this month, where the former South Bend mayor is absent during a historic global supply chain breakdown.
“Paternity leave, they call it; trying to figure out how to breastfeed,” Carlson said. “No word on how that went.”
Buttigieg and his husband adopted twins Penelope Rose and Joseph August a few months ago. The transportation chief fired back on Sunday, making a whirlwind tour on numerous political talk shows to bash Carlson.
He told NBC’s “Meet the Press” that “paid family leave is important” and that he’s not on “a vacation.”
Buttigieg told CNN’s “State of the Union” that same day that he would not apologize to Carlson, and “every American ought to be able to do” the same when they have a child.
And he went to ABC’s “The View” and said taking two months off should be normal.
“Culturally, we do have to get across the idea that this is work,” he said. “My workday as secretary of Transportation starts at a relatively normal hour. My workday as a job starts around three in the morning.”
“The negativity was unfortunate but, in a way, maybe some good comes out of it too because it’s helped us have a conversation about parental leave,” Buttigieg also said this week.
Having solved the supply chain crisis, Pete Buttigieg turns his attention to Tucker Carlson and paternity leave@PeteButtigieg @WSJ
— Kazzim Zongo (@Kazzim10073) October 25, 2021
You can see Buttigieg’s response on CNN’s “State of the Union” here —
BUTTIGIEG: "I'm not going to apologize to Tucker Carlson, or anyone else, for taking care of my premature newborn infant twins."
"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." pic.twitter.com/IOV6wqzZUR
— Zach Purser Brown (@zachjourno) October 17, 2021
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