GOP congresswoman Lauren Boebert (Colo.) brought up the fact that she gave birth to one of her four kids in a truck to criticize Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg for taking paternal leave following the birth of his twins.
“Listen, I’m a mother of four,” Boebert said in a YouTube video . “I delivered one of my children in the front seat of my truck. Because, as a mom of four, we got things to do. Ain’t nobody got time for two and a half months of maternity leave. We have a world to save here.”
Buttigieg, who is gay, announced in August that he would take two months of paternity leave, amid a supply chain crisis, after he and his husband Chasten adopted twins.
“The guy in charge of it all, Mayor Pete, was on a two-month maternity, paternity, whatever the heck you want to call it, leave. Okay, the guy was gone. The guy was not working,” said Boebert.
She went on to mock Buttigieg saying he took the time off to “figure out how to chest feed.”
Buttigieg defended his decision to take paternal leave, telling the New York Times, “The big thing is having a newly personal appreciation for the fact that this is work. It may be time away from a professional role, but it’s very much time on.”
