I doubt if Melanie Stansbury, for one, would intentionally miss the vote. The incident of a police blockade in front of the capital preventing them from arriving sounds somewhat suspicious. Who really cares, though. This goes on record with all republicans but Massie voting to retain Hegseth. If Democrats want to impeach him in January they easily can do so.

As always, if there's a question in the headline, you can safely assume the answer is "no". If every member of Congress showed up to vote, the result would've stayed the same, but because Democrats are the only party assumed to have agency, they're obviously at fault for anything that goes wrong even while they still don't have a majority. We're gonna be seeing this shit a lot until at least January as the powers that be try to chip away at the good will the Democrats bought themselves with the midterms.

Useless dems, 2-party systems are toxic as hell.