Transportation secretary Pete Buddha judge coming under new scrutiny for a recent vacation overseas while our country was on the brink of yet another crisis we're learning now the Buddha judge was actually in Portugal while here at home Americans were bracing for a potential rail railroad strike that could have derailed the supply chain and left passengers stranded meanwhile crippling the economy to make matters worse but a judge even posted a misleading video at the time from an airport that suggested he was in the country he was not Portugal is lovely in September the spokesperson for the
department now responding to the controversy saying that mayor Pete was traveling on personal time but remained engaged on urgent issues they said the trip had been long planned in advance he can't cancel that or can you Jackie I think you can I mean I am it never ceases to amaze me the hypocrisy that goes on in this Administration they never miss an opportunity to take a trip UC Nancy Pelosi in Italy you see bootage on this trip here when we are at different crisis points this rail strike was a huge issue for our economy um
and you know you can say whatever you want to say about the Trump Administration but they worked the President worked he worked weekends his administration was constantly at it and they were fighting for the American people I look at this and say though that people like Pete butterjudge are never going to sort of take a step back and reflect on this because they're in power they continue to get votes and people support them so as a result of that it's almost like the behavior is being rewarded and that's unfortunate because hard work used to be
rewarded in this country and he wasn't even the one who ended the strike or averted it in the first place that had to go all the way to the White House in Congress well you know conveniently before the midterm elections the president promised that that was going to happen he broke that promise and then had to do a really stinky deal for the unions I mean Republicans were willing to meet Democrats halfway between two weeks paid leave family leave to one week Biden gave them one day so Buddha judge then inserts himself back in and
does that horrible deal for the people who actually help get them elected you know and on the point of just transparency you know what so he's at an airport going to Portugal just be transparent about it could you have taken a train to get to some point on your way out I mean you can't take a train to Portugal obviously but you can get a train to take you someplace on your way to an airline that's carrying you out of the country and talk all about Transportation since you're the transportation secretary and what your ideas
about supply chain and baby formula crisis and all that no he's not going to do that because I don't think he's connected enough to do that I think his train cars don't connect do we do we not expect enough from our leaders because I feel like people like this often get a pass it's like oh well that's okay he was having a good time union workers be damned I mean I want to say what a pulley time of fair vacation you know I first time I saw that on internet I thought it was a fake
news I just didn't I didn't want to believe it and then I was like well you're the Secretary of Transportation other people are here are protesting and you're going to a vacation it was a very poorly time so I was just I thought it was one of those uh the the onion news yeah you know this could not be half hitting I learned anything that's true so it was yeah it's interesting we learned uh new stuff about secretary Pete every single day that's right unfortunately truth is Stranger Than Fiction here when it comes to this
Administration so let me get this straight this person whose salary we pay uh who oversees people who got him elected into this position right now chose that time took paid leave while well others our money sick leave was being negotiated and then flocked around Portugal and then lied about it the Optics of this are so poor and to me it just again communicates to me that I'm not smart enough to to keep up with him right I'm not worth it to know the truth and the whole thing about being long planned in advance that's a
really common tactic used in courts actually that's something that judges respect when you're scheduling hearings and trials like oh you've got a family vacation long plan no problem okay what's the next month's schedule so the fact that this is someone who's part of a cabinet who is using this same rote excuse to me just again communicates that we're not worth an elevated status guess what you're the Department of Transportation secretary and you have something planned I don't care stay home you're engaged in your matters while you're traveling no you're not you're probably enjoying wine and
traveling around as you should be do one or the other but don't waste my tax dollars and my time with you abdicating your responsibilities and the people who pay for it are the members of that Union that got a horrible deal and if memory serves and you would know this best because you're keeping up with these numbers over on Fox Business probably more sensitively than the rest of us but I still think we were cooking around 40 year you know 40-year high of inflation at that point well into the eights absolutely even where we are
at 7.1 percent we should not be celebrating um this drop in inflation that we've seen and the reason I say that is he went on a pretty Tony trip I mean when you look at the details that we can learn I mean he certainly wasn't suffering going the way that he did I mean I I just don't understand does he have a team can anybody teach him Sensitivity I I don't know I just don't think it's connecting for him it's full responsibility it's all about his political Ambitions you know the people who should be served
by his administration be damned you know he nothing is too important to keep him from his vacation time meanwhile these union members are fighting like hell to get a few sick days that's right and he's like you know sipping cocktails in Porto Portugal like you know what I'll be back in a week maybe what a wonderful life hey everyone I'm Emily campagno catch me and my co-host Harris Faulkner and Kaylee mcineny on outnumbered every weekday at 12 pm Eastern or sets your DVR also don't forget to subscribe to the Fox News YouTube page for daily
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