{"id":946004,"date":"2021-10-31T15:29:29","date_gmt":"2021-10-31T19:29:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=946004"},"modified":"2021-10-31T15:29:33","modified_gmt":"2021-10-31T19:29:33","slug":"after-paternity-leave-pete-buttigieg-says-nobody-gets-everything-that-they-want-on-dems-dropping-paid-family-leave","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/after-paternity-leave-pete-buttigieg-says-nobody-gets-everything-that-they-want-on-dems-dropping-paid-family-leave\/","title":{"rendered":"After Paternity Leave, Pete Buttigieg Says \u2018Nobody Gets Everything That They Want\u2019 On Dems Dropping Paid Family Leave"},"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\">36<\/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%2Fafter-paternity-leave-pete-buttigieg-says-nobody-gets-everything-that-they-want-on-dems-dropping-paid-family-leave%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=946004&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--><p>Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg, who recently returned from several weeks of paternity leave, defended Democrats dropping paid family leave from their spending package, saying on Sunday that \u201cnobody gets everything that they want\u201d in a large bill like this.<\/p>\n<p>CNN\u2019s Dana Bash pressed Buttigieg on the issue on Sunday\u2019s \u201cState of the Union,\u201d showing the former Democratic presidential candidate a clip of himself on the same show just two weeks prior calling for paid family leave.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt 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,\u201d Buttigieg said in the clip from earlier this month.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhat do you say to the more than 100 million Americans who don\u2019t have access to the kind of paid family leave you just benefited from and don\u2019t understand why the administration didn\u2019t fight harder to keep it in the bill?\u201d Bash asked Buttigieg on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>Buttigieg defended the bill, saying that some family assistance is included, and calling it \u201cthe most important pro-family legislation of my lifetime.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhen you have a successful policy, when you deliver major positive transformational change in the lives of Americans, you are rewarded with more running room to do more great things,\u201d Buttigieg said. \u201cI firmly believe that idea that good policy is good politics, and this framework is good policy.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He added that \u201cobviously, when you put together something this big and this complex, nobody gets everything that they want.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe president has been clear about that; I don\u2019t think anybody crafting their perfect package in their mind would see it reflected here, because this reflects the input of so many different people, including bipartisan work on the infrastructure side, and a very ideologically diverse big tent party on the family stuff,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<p>Buttigieg took several weeks of paid paternity leave when he and his husband Chasten welcomed newborn adopted twins in August. The transportation secretary was criticized for taking so much time to focus on the couple\u2019s premature twins while Congress was considering the Biden administration\u2019s $3.5 trillion infrastructure package, the Build Back Better Act, and while the country is weathering a supply chain crisis.<\/p>\n<p>Buttigieg has defended his decision to take paid family leave, saying that he is \u201cnot going to apologize\u201d for taking care of his twins and that \u201cit\u2019s helped us have a conversation about parental leave.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cEvery American ought to be able to<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg, who recently returned from several weeks of paternity leave, defended Democrats dropping paid family leave from their spending package, saying on Sunday that \u201cnobody gets everything that they want\u201d in a large bill like this.CNN\u2019s Dana Bash pressed Buttigieg on the issue on Sunday\u2019s \u201cState of the Union,\u201d showing the former Democratic presidential candidate a clip of himself on the same show just two weeks prior calling for paid family leave.\u201cIt 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,\u201d Buttigieg said in the clip from earlier this month.\u201cWhat do you say to the more than 100 million Americans who don\u2019t have access to the kind of paid family leave you just benefited from and don\u2019t understand why the administration didn\u2019t fight harder to keep it in the bill?\u201d Bash asked Buttigieg on Sunday.Buttigieg defended the bill, saying that some family assistance is included, and calling it \u201cthe most important pro-family legislation of my lifetime.\u201d\u201cWhen you have a successful policy, when you deliver major positive transformational change in the lives of Americans, you are rewarded with more running room to do more great things,\u201d Buttigieg said. \u201cI firmly believe that idea that good policy is good politics, and this framework is good policy.\u201dHe added that \u201cobviously, when you put together something this big and this complex, nobody gets everything that they want.\u201d\u201cThe president has been clear about that; I don\u2019t think anybody crafting their perfect package in their mind would see it reflected here, because this reflects the input of so many different people, including bipartisan work on the infrastructure side, and a very ideologically diverse big tent party on the family stuff,\u201d he added.Buttigieg took several weeks of paid paternity leave when he and his husband Chasten welcomed newborn adopted twins in August. The transportation secretary was criticized for taking so much time to focus on the couple\u2019s premature twins while Congress was considering the Biden administration\u2019s $3.5 trillion infrastructure package, the Build Back Better Act, and while the country is weathering a supply chain crisis.Buttigieg has defended his decision to take paid family leave, saying that he is \u201cnot going to apologize\u201d for taking care of his twins and that \u201cit\u2019s helped us have a conversation about parental leave.\u201d\u201cEvery American ought to be able to get paid parental leave. That\u2019s something that the president believes in and has proposed. It\u2019s something I believe,\u201d Buttigieg said\u00a0on \u201cThe View\u201d earlier this month.\u201cIf there\u2019s this idea that maybe men have access to paternity leave, but it\u2019s frowned on if they actually use it, then obviously that doesn\u2019t work for a marriage like mine, but also for a man who\u2019s married to a woman,\u201d Buttigieg said. \u201cThat carries with it the assumption that the woman\u2019s going to do all the work. That just makes no sense in the 21st century.\u201dOn the U.S. supply chain crisis, Buttiegieg warned that the problems will likely continue for months and through the holiday season.\u201cCertainly a lot of the challenges that we\u2019ve been experiencing this year will continue into next year,\u201d Buttigieg said earlier this month on CNN.The Daily Wire is one of America\u2019s fastest-growing conservative media companies and counter-cultural outlets for news, opinion, and entertainment. 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