She can’t sleep in her office until she has an office, which se will not have until January 3rd.
But they WANT her in DC now, for training, for indoctrination, for whatever else. So she is in a situation where she needs a place to stay in DC, for her employment, but her employer is not paying for it, or paying her a salary.
I think it would be pretty reasonable for the congress to offer a daily stipend for the days they require newly elected officials to be training for the job. It would pay for hotel and food each day.
Yes, it seems silly that a person with money in the bank would actually make a big deal out of this, but it’s not an unreasonable thing.
We technically should be able to elect anybody to office, even people with no money, and they should be given the means to travel and stay in Washington once they are certified the winner, since they have to be there before the term starts.
She needs to be in DC now to start putting together a staff, unless she thinks she can just round up a crowd at Starbucks.