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WXMI â Michigan lawmakers at the state and federal level are raising concern â and passing resolutions â after members of the Michigan National Guard were served inedible meals.
Roughly 1,000 guardsmen and women from Michigan are still in Washington, D.C. protecting the nationâs capital after the Jan. 6 riots. Recent images show raw meat and chicken and food with pieces of metal in it were served to guard members.
âRaw hamburgers, raw chicken, and then with the addition of some metal thatâs in thereâ¦thereâs some speculation that they might be Brillo pad fragments,â said Michigan Representative Bill Huizenga, who visited with Michigan National Guard troops last week. âWe cannot do this to our civilian soldiers. These men and women that have left their families left their jobs to come out here.â
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WXMI â Staying true to his words pre-vote, Representative Bill Huizenga, (R) â MI, voted no on the sole article of impeachment against President Donald Trump.
âThe president is no longer going to be the president in seven days,â said Huizenga. âThis is theatre upon theatre frankly.â
The effort was in vein, as 232 members voted to impeach; only 217 yes votes were needed.
Huizenga, like other GOP colleagues in the House, are more apt to a different rebuke of the president, like a censure. He says the presidentâs actions fall short of the single charge: incitement of an insurrection.