Setting up escalation in approvals is rejecting the expense report

Summary:

We have enabled reminders and escalations for expense report approvals. Reminders are working fine, but when it goes to escalation the expense report is auto rejected. The expectation is , the escalation should reassign the approval authority to the manager of the first approver. But it is auto rejecting, please help

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