Sen. Marco Rubio, R-Fla., escalated his feud with Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg on Sunday, saying Buttigieg is operating for the agenda of "Marxist misfits."

Buttiegieg strike out at Rubio early Sunday around the senator's opposition to codifying homosexual relationship. Rubio fired back in a video clip on Twitter, mocking the Biden administration official for telling People suffering under superior gasoline price ranges to invest in high-priced electric powered automobiles.

"We have a transportation secretary named Pete Buttigieg who thinks that highways can be racist who thinks that $5 gas—which is killing doing work Americans—is a excellent factor since that means individuals are gonna push a lot less, or since everybody is now gonna go out and purchase a $65,000 electric auto with a Chinese battery in it," Rubio explained.

"I'm gonna concentration on the actual complications. I am not gonna target on the agenda dictated by a bunch of affluent, elite liberals and a bunch of Marxist misfits who regrettably currently manage the agenda of the contemporary Democratic Get together," he added.

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Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg speaks through a briefing at the White Household, Could 16, 2022. (WHD Picture/Susan Walsh, File)

Rubio had beforehand identified as the push to codify gay marriage in Congress a "stupid waste of time."

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Democrats started pushing the invoice after the Supreme Courtroom struck down Roe v. Wade, creating some within the party to anxiety that Obergefell v. Hodges, the ruling making a appropriate to gay relationship, could drop as well.

"I never assume we should be shelling out time on a non-challenge and a non-dilemma," Rubio claimed Saturday. "It is really as straightforward as that. I just you should not. Not when men and women are having to pay $4.66 for gas. Not when inflation and prices for some of the most fundamental goods and products and services in our place are crushing center-course Americans."

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"This is just not true. It can be a phony challenge. I you should not vote for pretend problems. I don't vote to clear up troubles that really don't exist. It is essential for the priorities of the people in Washington to be the priorities of the men and women that despatched us there," he added.

The exact same-intercourse marriage bill handed as a result of the Dwelling of Associates past 7 days and now will have to achieve the support of at the very least 10 Republicans to go the Senate.