New video: Lauren Boebert ran up Capitol steps before missing debt ceiling vote

Rep. Lauren Boebert claims she skipped the House vote on passing the debt ceiling deal out of “protest.” Speaker Kevin McCarthy closed with President Joe Biden — but new video shows otherwise.

Video from a CNN reporter outside the Capitol on Wednesday evening captured the Republican congresswoman from Colorado running up the stairs to try to vote on time.

“They just shut it down,” someone is heard to inform Boebert off-camera as he comes into view as he runs up the front steps of the Capitol.

“They closed it?” she asked, pausing to turn around, before continuing to run when it was confirmed she could no longer vote on the measure.

The bill passed by a vote of 314 to 117. There were four no votes, Boebert was one of them. It then passed the Senate and was promptly signed by Biden.

CNN recorded video of Rep. Lauren Boebert running up the steps of the Capitol to try to vote on raising the debt ceiling — despite her claim on Saturday that she skipped the vote in protest

In a selfie video posted to her Twitter on Saturday, Boebert claimed she didn’t vote because it was a “no-show protest”

In a video Saturday from her home county in Colorado, Boebert steamed.

“They served us a crappy sandwich,” she lamented in the 48-second selfie video posted to Twitter.

“Call it a no-show protest,” she added, “but I certainly let all my colleagues and the whole country know that I was against this crap.”

While it’s not immediately clear what happened, the CNN video appears to show that Boebert was running in an attempt to get to the House floor in time for the vote, but missed the threshold.

However, Boebert suggested in her selfie video on Saturday that she deliberately did not vote because she was angry at the steps taken to push the deal through Congress.

“I’m back in Colorado, but let’s talk DC,” she began the clip wearing a backwards baseball cap and red lipstick. “No apologies, I was disapproved that they wouldn’t let me do my job – so I didn’t vote.”

She tweeted more harsh words for the country’s capital on Sunday morning.

“DC is an absolute cesspool, but there is no greater honor than representing Colorado’s 3rd District,” she wrote. “Being on the ground with the people reminds me who I’m doing this for and makes it all worth it.”

The House overwhelmingly passed legislation negotiated by Biden and McCarthy to suspend the debt ceiling and set higher federal spending limits.

Conservative lawmakers, and most members of the House Freedom Caucus in particular, were not happy with the deal, saying it was a cavern for Democrats.

Boebert lamented that Republicans worked hard to win back the House in the 2022 midterm elections only to give in to the Democrats’ wishes in the package passed last week.

House Speaker Kevin McCarthy reached a deal with Joe Biden on the debt ceiling that was passed by the House on Wednesday. President Biden signed the bill into law on Saturday

Those on the far left of the political spectrum weren’t happy with the deal either, as it increased job requirements for those receiving federal benefits like food stamps and will resume student loan repayments 60 days after Biden signed into law.

The law will defer the federal debt limit for two years and give the government unlimited cash flow to pay its obligations during that time. But it also imposes two years of spending caps and a range of other policies that Republicans demanded in exchange for avoiding default.

The groundbreaking deal was passed just two days before the bankruptcy and after months of deadlock during negotiations between Congress and the White House.