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June 29, 2021, 7:33 am
Louisiana Senator Bill Cassidy made the fascinating statement this week that infrastructure issues are a “woman’s problem,” and it’s going about as well for him as one might expect.
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Cassidy was speaking on the infrastructure bill currently being discussed in Congress, and specifically, how his fellow Republicans who are hesitant to do their jobs just because the bill is backed by President Biden might be convinced that supporting it is the right thing to do.
“If you go home and talk to constituents for an hour and a half getting to work and an hour and a half getting home, three hours a day that they don’t spend with their family, they want a bridge coming to a town near them,” Cassidy said.
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While that would have been a great place to stop, for some reason, he continued on.
“My wife says that roads and bridges are a woman’s problem, if you will,” he said. “Because oftentimes it is the woman, aside from commuting to work, who’s also taking children to schools or doing the shopping. And the more time she spends on that road, the less time she spends doing things of higher value.”
Fixing infrastructure issues around the country is of massive importance, but it’s certainly not an issue that’s in any way divided by gender lines.
And Cassidy’s casual assumption that women are the ones handling everything with children and shopping while still commuting to work — even if he did attribute it to his wife — didn’t sit well with anyone living in this century.
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That’s a sweet story! My dad and I used to shop together. While he stood at the checkout, he’d send me to pick out flowers for the table, and we’d get home and make a snack tray after for our dinner. Dad times, Good times.
— Betsy Moonbat (@BetsyMoonbat) June 27, 2021
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, however, took Cassidy’s remarks as an opportunity to push for the passage of a Democratic reconciliation bill in addition to the bipartisan infrastructure bill—an issue Republicans are currently balking at.
“House Democrats are very committed to making sure that, in Senator Cassidy’s words, infrastructure is very centered on women,” she said. “And in addition to a bridge, you need a babysitter. It’s very important that we pass a reconciliation bill and a families plan that expands childcare, lowers the cost of Medicare, and that supports families in the economy.”
*First Published: June 29, 2021, 7:33 am
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