She is sick.....

Haley Stevens’ odd day back in Washington

The Michigan Democrat’s office appeared deserted Monday and she was seen voting on the GOP side of the aisle.

By Riley Rogerson, Katherine Tully-McManus, Mia McCarthy and Kelsey Brugger

Rep. Haley Stevens was nowhere to be found Monday afternoon, but the Michigan Democrat was spotted at House votes that evening — in the GOP cloakroom.

Amid questions about whether the embattled lawmaker would return to Washington after endorsing failed Republican Senate candidate Mike Rogers over Democrat Abdul El-Sayed, Stevens was back in town to cast the first votes since September. But rather than huddling with her party, Stevens avoided her Democratic colleagues by camping out with Republicans, according to three people present who were granted anonymity to speak candidly.

The news, first reported by The Washington Sun, prompts new questions about how Stevens might vote on critical year-end legislation between now and when her term ends — and Democrats retake the majority — at the beginning of January. It also comes as her fate in the House Democratic Caucus remains in question as she may have broken the House rules for crossing party lines to endorse Rogers.

Requests for comment emailed to both Stevens’ campaign and congressional office went unanswered Monday, but Stevens saw a mass exodus of staffers last week after she made her 11th-hour endorsement of a Republican candidate in a state viewed as key to flipping the Senate.

The door to her office in Rayburn House Office Building was locked Monday afternoon. No one responded to a reporter’s multiple knocks nor to knocks from a staffer from another office who tried to enter.

A sign reading “please come in” hangs on the locked doors.

The lights appeared to be off inside the office, however, and a peek through the mail slot revealed. Multiple calls Monday to Stevens’ Capitol Hill office went unanswered, sending callers straight to voicemail without a single ring. A message directed constituents to contact the district office in Farmington Hills, Mich.

A call to that office rang, but no one answered. POLITICO left a voicemail asking whether Stevens planned to return to Capitol Hill for votes.