""We're barreling towards a shutdown. All my Democratic colleagues are here. I'm going to go search for my Republican colleagues," McBride declared, striding through the marble corridors of Congress with her phone camera rolling. The first-term Democrat poked around empty committee rooms, peeked behind curtains, and even checked inside a fireplace. "Are there any Republicans in here? Hello? Republicans? No," she deadpanded. On the Capitol's private subway, she quipped, "No Republicans on the train.""
"Next, she's standing on a broken escalator. "Does anyone know how to fix this thing?" she asked, as the video cut to a photo of the President, who, just days earlier, along with Melania Trump, was stranded on a stalled escalator at the United Nations General Assembly. Trump has since alleged "triple sabotage" of his appearance there after a White House-run teleprompter and an audio feed appeared to have technical difficulties."
Delaware Congresswoman Sarah McBride released a satirical video mocking the absence of House Republicans as a potential government shutdown approached. She walked marble corridors and recorded herself searching empty committee rooms, peeking behind curtains, and checking inside a fireplace while quipping that Republicans were nowhere to be found. She rode the Capitol's private subway and stood on a broken escalator, joking about fixing it and referencing a separate escalator incident involving President Trump. McBride, the first out transgender person elected to Congress, used humor online and appears with Democratic Rep. Maxwell Alejandro Frost in the clip.
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