Mike Pence joked that nationwide transportation woes were prompted by Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg’s parental leave. “Pete is the only person in human history to have a child and everyone else gets postpartum depression,” he said.
, has not publicly addressed his remarks since the dinner, but his former chief of staff, Marc Short, doubled down on them Monday, scoffing at the White House’s call for an apology.early Monday afternoon.
He noted that Secretary of State Antony Blinken, who also spoke at the Gridiron dinner, had joked Saturday night about yearning for “the old days” when “Jews did all the work.” “The hypocrisy is especially rich,” Short added. “The White House would be wise to focus less on placating the woke police and focus more on bank failures, planes nearly colliding in midair, train derailments, and the continued supply chain crisis.”Buttigieg, the former mayor of South Bend, Ind., and Pence, the state’s former governor, have previously clashed over Pence’s record on LGBTQ rights.
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