House Republicans sought to prevent Rep. Brittany Pettersen from voting while she was on maternity leave. So, four weeks postpartum with her infant son in tow, she traveled solo to Washington, D.C., to vote against the GOP budget resolution.

At one point though, Pettersen did face at least one angry constituent, who asked if she’d push for new leadership in the Democratic caucus, a question that drew loud applause from the audience. The man said he wants leaders who will fight back against the Trump administration.

U.S. Rep. Brittany Pettersen traveled Tuesday from Colorado to Washington, D.C., carrying her month-old infant in her arms to vote against a Republican budget plan the Lakewood Democrat described as

The congresswoman, who's currently on maternity leave, came back to D.C. to vote against the Republican budget resolution.

Speaker Johnson and Rep. Arrington were able to unite the House Republicans in passing the budget resolution, including a path for tax reform.

Democratic Rep. Brittany Pettersen was denied the option of voting remotely or using a proxy, so she took matters—and her baby—into her own hands to make her vote count.

Their return, including Rep. Brittany Pettersen with her newborn and Rep. Kevin Mullin with an IV, forced Republicans to scramble to just barely pass their budget bill.

The razor-thin Republican majority in Congress and a few waffling members made every vote even more meaningful than usual.

The budget proposal is an overview. It’s the first step in the Republicans’ attempts to bring Trump’s agenda to fruition. That is not prioritizing people like you. It is prioritizing the billionaires and millionaires in this country and large corporations, on the backs of working families.

The good news for Republicans is that they managed to narrowly pass a far-right budget blueprint. The bad news is that their future is still bleak.

Republicans, who already have ruled out massive cuts to Social Security and Medicare, are turning their attention to siphoning as much as $880 billion from Medicaid over the next decade to help