The battle for paid family leave rages on in Congress, and Meghan Markle is personally calling senators from both parties to advocate for the issue.
about paid family leave, released through the advocacy network Paid Leave for All last month, Markle is personally calling senators from both parties to advocate for the issue.
One such senator, Republican Shelley Moore Capito of West Virginia, recounted her surprise call from the royal to. “I’m in my car. I’m driving. It says ‘caller ID blocked,’” Capito said. “Honestly…I thought it was Senator [Joe] Manchin. His calls come in blocked. And she goes, ‘Senator Capito?’ I said, ‘Yes.’ She said, ‘This is Meghan, the Duchess of Sussex.’”
If only all of our blocked calls were coming from an American duchess and not a centrist Democrat holding hostage paid leave to millions of American families still smarting from a pandemic. I simply couldn’t love Markle’s lifelong
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