{"id":968569,"date":"2021-11-04T17:00:18","date_gmt":"2021-11-04T21:00:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=968569"},"modified":"2021-11-04T17:00:21","modified_gmt":"2021-11-04T21:00:21","slug":"meghan-markle-privately-calling-republican-senators-pushing-paid-family-leave-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/meghan-markle-privately-calling-republican-senators-pushing-paid-family-leave-report\/","title":{"rendered":"Meghan Markle Privately Calling Republican Senators, Pushing Paid Family Leave: Report"},"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\">22<\/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%2Fmeghan-markle-privately-calling-republican-senators-pushing-paid-family-leave-report%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=968569&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>Meghan Markle, the Duchess of Sussex, reportedly called two Republican Senators on their personal phones and lobbied them to support paid family leave.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>According to POLITICO, Markle, who is targeting both Democrats and Republicans, called Senator Shelley Moore Capito (R-WV) and Senator Susan Collins (R-ME) to urge them to support paid family leave provisions in the Biden administration\u2019s \u201cBuild Back Better\u201d spending bill. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m in my car. I\u2019m driving. It says caller ID blocked. Honestly \u2026 I thought it was Sen. Manchin. His calls come in blocked. And she goes \u2018Sen. Capito?\u2019 I said, \u2018Yes.\u2019 She said, \u2018This is Meghan, the Duchess of Sussex.\u201d\u2026 \u201cI couldn\u2019t figure out how she got my number.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Collins was equally shocked. \u201c[M]uch to my surprise,\u201d Collins told <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/marianne_levine\/status\/1455933132805492745?s=20\">Politico\u2019s Marianne LeVine and The New York Times\u2019s Emily Cochrane<\/a>. \u201cshe called me on my private line and she introduced herself as the Duchess of Sussex, which is kind of ironic.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201c[I] was happy to talk with her. But I\u2019m more interested in what the people of Maine are telling me about it.\u201d&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The calls, according to Politico, were facilitated by Senator Kirsten Gillibrand (D-NY), an outspoken <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/gillibrandny\/status\/1455921196999094277?s=20\">advocate<\/a> for paid family leave. Gillibrand said she gave the duchess the phone numbers. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cI talked to each of the women senators and let them know that she\u2019s going to reach out, because she only completed two of the calls,\u201d she said. \u201cShe\u2019s going to call some others, so I let them know in advance.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cShe wants to be part of a working group to work on paid leave long term and she\u2019s going to be. Whether this comes to fruition now or later, she\u2019ll be part of a group of women that hopefully will work on paid leave together,\u201d she added.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>News of the Duchess\u2019s call comes as Democrats have <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/marianne_levine\/status\/1455933132805492745?s=20\">re-inserted<\/a> a paid family leave provision into the scaled-back $1.75 trillion social spending bill. <\/p>\n<p>As The Daily Wire <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/pelosi-asks-for-paid-family-medical-leave-to-be-included-in-spending-bill-hearing-after-cut\">reported<\/a> Wednesday, Pelosi sent a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.speaker.gov\/newsroom\/11321-3\">letter<\/a> to the members of her caucus, asking them to review the text of the Build Back Better Act, and asking the House Ways and Means Committee to take up the paid family leave provision. The letter reads in part:&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><em>It had been my intention throughout this process to put on the House Floor and pass a bill that would pass the Senate in the same form.&nbsp; Because I have been informed by a Senator of opposition to a few of the priorities<\/p>\n<p><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Meghan Markle, the Duchess of Sussex, reportedly called two Republican Senators on their personal phones and lobbied them to support paid family leave.\u00a0According to POLITICO, Markle, who is targeting both Democrats and Republicans, called Senator Shelley Moore Capito (R-WV) and Senator Susan Collins (R-ME) to urge them to support paid family leave provisions in the Biden administration\u2019s \u201cBuild Back Better\u201d spending bill. \u201cI\u2019m in my car. I\u2019m driving. It says caller ID blocked. Honestly \u2026 I thought it was Sen. Manchin. His calls come in blocked. And she goes \u2018Sen. Capito?\u2019 I said, \u2018Yes.\u2019 She said, \u2018This is Meghan, the Duchess of Sussex.\u201d\u2026 \u201cI couldn\u2019t figure out how she got my number.\u201dCollins was equally shocked. \u201c[M]uch to my surprise,\u201d Collins told Politico\u2019s Marianne LeVine and The New York Times\u2019s Emily Cochrane. \u201cshe called me on my private line and she introduced herself as the Duchess of Sussex, which is kind of ironic.\u201d\u201c[I] was happy to talk with her. But I\u2019m more interested in what the people of Maine are telling me about it.\u201d\u00a0The calls, according to Politico, were facilitated by Senator Kirsten Gillibrand (D-NY), an outspoken advocate for paid family leave. Gillibrand said she gave the duchess the phone numbers. \u201cI talked to each of the women senators and let them know that she\u2019s going to reach out, because she only completed two of the calls,\u201d she said. \u201cShe\u2019s going to call some others, so I let them know in advance.\u201d\u201cShe wants to be part of a working group to work on paid leave long term and she\u2019s going to be. Whether this comes to fruition now or later, she\u2019ll be part of a group of women that hopefully will work on paid leave together,\u201d she added.\u00a0News of the Duchess\u2019s call comes as Democrats have re-inserted a paid family leave provision into the scaled-back $1.75 trillion social spending bill. As The Daily Wire reported Wednesday, Pelosi sent a letter to the members of her caucus, asking them to review the text of the Build Back Better Act, and asking the House Ways and Means Committee to take up the paid family leave provision. The letter reads in part:\u00a0\u00a0It had been my intention throughout this process to put on the House Floor and pass a bill that would pass the Senate in the same form.\u00a0 Because I have been informed by a Senator of opposition to a few of the priorities contained in our bill and because we must have legislation agreed to by the House and the Senate in the final version of the Build Back Better Act that we will send to the President\u2019s desk, we must strive to find common ground in the legislation.\u00a0 As we are reviewing priorities and at the urging of many Members of the Caucus, I have asked the Ways and Means Committee for its legislation for Paid Family and Medical Leave to be included in this morning\u2019s hearing.Paid Family Leave still faces opposition from Capito\u2019s Democratic colleague, Joe Manchin, also of West Virginia. As The Daily Wire reported Wednesday, Manchin\u2019s opposition has previously forced the Biden administration to lower its paid family leave proposal from 12 weeks all the way down to four, before it was cut entirely from the framework outlined by the administration last week.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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