Oldest U.S. Senator, 92, Mourns Yet Another Old Vacuum, 60

Annabelle Gordon / REUTERS Chuck Grassley’s household vacuum crisis has reached catastrophic new levels.

After mourning his beloved 49-year-old “Beth” last week, the 92-year-old Iowa senator has now revealed that his backup vacuum also bit the dust.

The Iowa Republican—who, at 92 years old, is the oldest U.S. senator—shared his last sucky vacuum parting just last week , when the 49-year-old clean machine that he had named “Beth” passed.

“U willl see Beth no more,” the senator wrote on X, with a photo of visible burn marks near Beth’s power cord from “electrical sparks,” Grassley explained.

“It’s not safe to use anymore.

GOOD BYE BETH.

U hv been a real workhorse.” Now, the nonagenarian is lamenting the loss of yet another ancient appliance.

“Disappointed my backup plan to vacuum for my family reunion didn’t work,” he wrote on X Saturday.

“My 1966 Electrolux is also broken.

I’m going to have to wait now until someone gives me a used Hoover,” he added.

Grassley, who has been on vacation this month, said his mom gave him the Electrolux decades ago.

He hoped it would hold out until he bought a new Hoover, “but it just didn’t work out that way.” X posters were agog, with one reminding the platform that Grassley, as the current president pro tempore, is chillingly “ Third.

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