Sarah McBride, Ted Lieu troll Stephen Miller by looking for him behind a tiny Capitol door

"Ahead of the U.S. government entering its third week of shutdown - and with most House Republicans at home after Speaker Mike Johnson sent members of the body back to their states - two Democratic lawmakers decided to turn frustration into farce. In a social media video that quickly went viral after being posted on Wednesday, Delaware Congresswoman Sarah McBride and California Congressman Ted Lieu wander through the empty halls of the Capitol, calling out for missing Republicans."

"That miniature portal isn't a prop. It's one of the Capitol's Meigs miniatures, small service doors built in the mid-1800s by engineer Montgomery C. Meigs as part of an early plumbing and fire-suppression system. According to the website for the architect of the Capitol, after a Christmas Eve fire destroyed the Library of Congress in 1851, Meigs installed a network of valves and pipes concealed behind these knee-high hatches, which workers used to access hidden reservoirs of water."

""Steve Scalise, where are you?" Lieu shouts, scanning the deserted visitor center and checking behind a vacant desk. "House Republicans, where are you?" Lieu encounters McBride, who joins in, quipping, "There are far more tourists around the Capitol than House Republicans." The two walk past statues and escalators, coming up empty, until McBride spots a curious door barely 2 feet tall."

Two Democratic members of Congress toured the empty Capitol halls during the third week of a U.S. government shutdown, calling out for absent House Republicans and posting a social media video that quickly went viral. The lawmakers, Delaware Congresswoman Sarah McBride and California Congressman Ted Lieu, wandered through deserted spaces, shouted for specific Republican leaders and quipped that tourists outnumbered House Republicans. McBride discovered a small, roughly 30-inch Meigs miniature service door and joked about Republicans hiding inside. The Meigs miniatures date to the mid-1800s and were part of a concealed plumbing and fire-suppression network installed after an 1851 Library of Congress fire.

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