{"id":1875780,"date":"2023-03-13T15:59:36","date_gmt":"2023-03-13T19:59:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/pence-team-responds-to-calls-for-apologies-over-buttigieg-paternity-leave-comments\/"},"modified":"2023-03-13T16:03:16","modified_gmt":"2023-03-13T20:03:16","slug":"pence-team-responds-to-calls-for-apologies-over-buttigieg-paternity-leave-comments","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/pence-team-responds-to-calls-for-apologies-over-buttigieg-paternity-leave-comments\/","title":{"rendered":"Pence team responds to calls for apologies over Buttigieg paternity leave comments"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">24<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fpence-team-responds-to-calls-for-apologies-over-buttigieg-paternity-leave-comments%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1875780&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47-->\n<div class=\"RichTextArticleBody-body\">\n<div class=\"Enhancement\">\n<div class=\"Enhancement-item\">\n<div id=\"Brid_78729995\" class=\"brid\" style=\"width:16;height:9\">               <\/div>\n<p>                $bp(&#8220;Brid_78729995&#8221;, {&#8220;id&#8221;:&#8221;27789&#8243;,&#8221;width&#8221;:&#8221;16&#8243;,&#8221;height&#8221;:&#8221;9&#8243;,&#8221;video&#8221;:&#8221;1260379&#8243;});               <\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><span class=\"ArticlePage-articleBody-firstLetter\">F<\/span>Ormer Vice President <a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/mike-pence\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Mike Pence<\/a>The team of&#8217;s was a thumper <a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/joe-biden\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Biden administration<\/a> For &#8220;hypocrisy&#8221; After the <a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/white-house\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">White House<\/a> Pence has been asked to apologise for his comments regarding the Transportation Secretary <a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/pete-buttigieg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Pete Buttigieg<\/a> and his paternity leave. <\/p>\n<p>Pence: Buttigieg&#8217;s absence at work &#8220;maternity&#8221; You can leave, and everyone else will get &#8220;postpartum depression&#8221; During his absence from the annual Gridiron dinner of journalists in Washington, D.C. <\/p>\n<p><b><a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/campaigns\/pence-insider-takes-aim-at-desantis\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">PENCE INSIDER PREPARES 2024 FOR DESANTIS AS FORMER VICTOR PRESIDENT<\/a><\/b> <\/p>\n<p>Although the White House considered his comments homophobic, and deemed them inappropriate, Pence&#8217;s spokespersons claim that the administration&#8217;s response was hypocritical. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The Biden administration should spare America the faux outrage. The hypocrisy is especially rich considering their own Secretary of State Antony Blinken joked that he yearned for \u2018the old days&#8217; when \u2018Jews did all the work,'&#8221; Marc Short, the spokesperson for the organization, said in a statement that the announcement was made to the <i>Washington Examiner.<\/i> <\/p>\n<p>Buttigieg, his husband Chasten, announced in September 2021 that they had twins. Buttigieg had no choice but to take leave when the children were hospitalized with a respiratory infection. The United States was also dealing with a number of other issues at the time. <a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/the-biggest-supply-chain-stories-of-2021\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">National supply chain crisis<\/a>, and President Joe Biden was working to pass the now-enacted Bipartisan Infrastructure Law \u2014 two areas that fell under Buttigieg&#8217;s umbrella. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Pete is the only person in human history to have a child and everyone else gets postpartum depression,&#8221; Pence added, at the dinner: &#8220;thousands of travelers were stranded in airports, the air traffic system shut down, and airplanes nearly collided on our runways&#8221; While the secretary was away on leave. <\/p>\n<p>Buttigieg stated that he worked daily from the hospital but <a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/homenews\/administration\/3897925-jean-pierre-calls-for-pence-to-apologize-for-buttigieg-postpartum-depression-jokes\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Some conservatives were criticized<\/a> The secretary was criticized for not doing more to resolve the crisis at hand. This also drew backlash by those who called the criticism homophobic. <i>Hill<\/i>. <\/p>\n<div class=\"Enhancement\">\n<div class=\"Enhancement-item\">\n<figure class=\"Figure mb-1 mb-sm-3 mb-md-1 article-lead-photo data_invisible\" data-align=\"center\" data-image-size=\"fixed\">\n<div class=\"Figure-container\"><figcaption class=\"Figure-caption\"> Transport Secretary Pete Buttigieg speaks at a news conference on Thursday, February 23, 2023 near the scene of the train derailment by Norfolk Southern on Feb. 3.<\/figcaption><\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>&#8220;Read More from&#8221; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/policy\/infrastructure\/pence-buttigieg-paternity-leave-comments-response\">Pence team responds in kind to the calls for an apology over Buttigieg comments about paternity leave<\/a>&#8221;<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p><span style=\"font-size:11px\"><em>&#8220;The views and opinions expressed here are solely those of the author of the article and not necessarily shared or endorsed by Conservative News Daily&#8221;<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former Vice President Mike Pence&#8217;s team slammed the Biden administration for &#8220;hypocrisy&#8221; after the White House called on Pence to apologize for comments he made regarding Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg and his paternity leave. 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