Key Points
- The Consumer Product Safety Commission insisted there are no plans to ban gas stoves even though the commissioner’s comments were what started the controversy in the first place.
- This prompted Republican Sen. Marsha Blackburn to tweet that the government was out of control if it thought it could mandate what type of stove consumers use.
- Enter Democrat Rep. Ted Lieu, who thought this was the equivalent of “government-mandated pregnancies.”
- Huh? That was the reaction on social media, where people didn’t realize government was mandating that people get pregnant
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