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Rep. Haley Stevens (D-MI), the Michigan Democrat who drew the rage of her own party by endorsing a Republican, was hard to find during Congress’ first day back at work after the midterm elections, leaving her office locked up and reportedly hunkering down in the Republican cloakroom during votes.

Stevens propelled her name into headlines across the country the Sunday before the election when she announced that she was endorsing the Republican, former Rep. Mike Rogers (R-MI), over Abdul El-Sayed, who had defeated her in a bitterly fought primary. Numerous media reports had repeatedly portrayed the two Democrats as continuing to spar after the primary, but Stevens’ decision to cross party lines still stunned many, sparked a mass resignation among her staff, and led to her expulsion from the Michigan Democratic Party.

Most elections prognosticators shrugged off Stevens’ eleventh hour loyalty switch as unlikely to make an impact on the race, and El-Sayed went on to beat Rogers by seven points.

But there are still several weeks left to serve for the current Congress, and Stevens headed back to D.C. with the rest of the lawmakers for meetings and votes Monday.

The outgoing congresswoman was “nowhere to be found,” reported Politico’s Riley Rogerson and Katherine Tully-McManus.

Haley Stevens’ DC office is locked.

POLITICO knocked and called, but no one is answering at the embattled Michigan Democrat’s Rayburn office.

w/ @ktullymcmanus https://t.co/IqAFbUY3hT

— Riley Rogerson (@riley_rogerson) November 9, 2026

Scenes from Rayburn looking for Rep. Haley Stevens

Knocks: unanswered
Calls: unanswered
Lights: off

Doors locked, but with a sign reading “please come in”

w/ @riley_rogerson https://t.co/gNMvi9HD00

— K Tully-McManus (@ktullymcmanus) November 9, 2026

The reporters made numerous attempts Monday to get in contact with Stevens or any remaining staffers, with calls and emails going unanswered and her office locked up tight, with the lights off and no one answering knocks at the door.

“A sign reading ‘please come in’ hangs on the locked doors,” Politico’s report noted.

Stevens did manage to show up for the House votes Monday evening, but did so from Republican territory, according to a report by The Washington Sun politics reporter Reese Gorman.

News: Dem Rep. Haley Stevens, who enraged Democrats by endorsing GOP Senate candidate Mike Rogers, spent the vote series tonight in the Republican cloakroom, per multiple sources.

This was the first vote series post election.

Multiple reporters from The Sun stopped by her…

— Reese Gorman (@reesejgorman) November 10, 2026

“Stevens, who enraged Democrats by endorsing GOP Senate candidate Mike Rogers, spent the vote series tonight in the Republican cloakroom, per multiple sources,” wrote Gorman, adding that several of his colleagues at the Sun had “stopped by her office today and it appeared to be closed.”

The congresswoman’s behavior “fate in the House Democratic Caucus remains in question,” Politico reported, because her endorsement of Rogers might have violated House rules by crossing party lines, and the whole situation “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.”

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