FILE - In this Feb. 11, 2020, record photograph Democratic statesmanlike campaigner erstwhile South Bend, Ind., Mayor Pete Buttigieg acknowledges supported arsenic helium stands connected signifier with his hubby Chasten Buttigieg astatine a superior nighttime predetermination rally successful Nashua, N.H. Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg has announced that helium and hubby Chasten person go parents. Buttigieg, the archetypal openly cheery Cabinet caput confirmed by the Senate, posted a photograph of their 2 children connected Saturday, Sept. 4, 2021, connected his idiosyncratic Twitter account. (AP Photo/Mary Altaffer, File)

FILE - In this Feb. 11, 2020, record photograph Democratic statesmanlike campaigner erstwhile South Bend, Ind., Mayor Pete Buttigieg acknowledges supported arsenic helium stands connected signifier with his hubby Chasten Buttigieg astatine a superior nighttime predetermination rally successful Nashua, N.H. Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg has announced that helium and hubby Chasten person go parents. Buttigieg, the archetypal openly cheery Cabinet caput confirmed by the Senate, posted a photograph of their 2 children connected Saturday, Sept. 4, 2021, connected his idiosyncratic Twitter account. (AP Photo/Mary Altaffer, File) (Copyright 2020 The Associated Press. All rights reserved.)

WASHINGTON – Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg and his husband, Chasten, are celebrating the arrival of not 1 — but 2 — bundles of joy.

The archetypal openly cheery idiosyncratic to beryllium confirmed by the Senate for a Cabinet presumption had shared past period that the mates had go parents aft seeking to adopt.

"We can’t hold to stock much soon,” helium tweeted then.

Buttigieg shared much connected Saturday, tweeting a photograph of Chasten and him each cradling a newborn.

“Chasten and I are beyond thankful for each the benignant wishes since archetypal sharing the quality that we’re becoming parents," the caput wrote connected his idiosyncratic Twitter account. “We are delighted to invited Penelope Rose and Joseph August Buttigieg to our family.”

He released nary different details astir the babies, specified arsenic whether they are twins.

Buttigieg, 39, has talked publically astir his tendency to go a begetter since his run for the Democratic statesmanlike information successful 2020.

Ad

Buttigieg, the erstwhile politician of South Bend, Indiana, and Chasten, 32, were joined successful June 2018. Buttigieg's father, Joseph, died six months aft the wedding.

Copyright 2021 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. This worldly whitethorn not beryllium published, broadcast, rewritten oregon redistributed without permission.