The U.S. Secretary of Transportation, Pete Buttigieg, “has actually been on paid leave since mid-August to spend time with his husband, Chasten, and their two newborn babies,” Politico reported on October 14.
What’s mildly humorous about this is that, until the Politico report, no one much noticed that Buttigieg had been missing.
The Department of Transportation website has a section for speeches by Buttigieg. The most recent one listed was on August 9.