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Democrats’ midterm honeymoon over as they suffer quick-fire double voting blunder

By Hailey Bullis, Molly Parks
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House Democrats‘ midterm euphoria came to a crashing halt on Capitol Hill this week, as two voting setbacks pierced the party’s victory lap.

The caucus failed to defeat a Republican effort to kill articles of impeachment against Secretary of War Pete Hegseth on Tuesday, and on Wednesday, a measure cutting some veterans’ benefits to increase benefits for other claims passed without Democratic opposition.

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