REPORT: Donalds Had Another Rep Cast His Votes

The Daily Beast reports:

Republican congressman Byron Donalds appears to have played hooky and skipped out on his legislative duties for an appearance on Real Time With Bill Maher.

Jake Sherman, a political analyst with MSNBC and founder of Punchbowl News, posted to X Saturday that Donalds might have went to see Maher at HBO’s studios in California over voting in person on the Protecting American Energy Production Act in person.

The act is part of Donald Trump’s wider “drill, baby, drill” energy agenda, and Donalds might have violated congressional ethics by having someone else vote for him after Congress eliminated proxy voting, according to Bipartisan Policy Center.

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