Former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) was ordered to “immediately” vacate her secretive Capitol office by Wednesday as she blasted acting Speaker Patrick McHenry’s decision as a “sharp departure from tradition.”
An email sent to Pelosi’s office on Tuesday said “the room will be re-locked” and reset for “speaker use,” Politico first reported.
The move came just hours after McHenry was named speaker pro tempore of the House following the ouster of Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) in a historic vote Tuesday.
“With all the important decisions that the new Republican Leadership must address, which we all eagerly await, one of the first actions taken by the new Speaker Pro Tempore is to order me to vacate my office in the Capitol,” Pelosi said. in a statement, referring to McHenry (R-NC).
Pelosi had two separate stints as speaker of the House, first from 2007 to 2011 and then again from 2019 to 2022.
“This eviction is a sharp departure from tradition. As Speaker, I give former Speaker [Dennis] Hastert a much larger office suite for as long as he wanted.”
Pelosi said she was in California, where she was mourning the death of Sen. Dianne Feinstein, and was unable to retrieve her belongings from the office.
Former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi has been kicked out of her private Capitol office by the new speaker pro tem.AP
Feinstein died on Friday at the age of 90 following a number of health problems.
Feinstein’s body will lie in state at San Francisco City Hall on Wednesday, while Pelosi is expected to speak at a memorial service outside City Hall on Thursday.
House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries’ (D-NY) staff helped clear Pelosi’s office late Tuesday, the outlet reported.
McHenry’s expulsion order was one of the congressman’s first acts as the House’s top lawmaker.AFP via Getty Images Pelosi moved out of hiding on Tuesday, with help from House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries’ staff, according to a spokesman for the former speaker.REUTERS
A television and a bag were seen outside the office before being taken away.
“Office space is not important to me, but it seems to be important to them,” Pelosi added. “Now that the new Republican Leadership has gotten this important thing done, let’s hope they get to work on the things that really matter to the American people.”
Pelosi was absent when the House voted to remove McCarthy as House speaker in a vote pushed by members of her own party.
Pelosi’s ouster came after McCarthy was ousted as speaker.AP
Eight Republicans – Andy Biggs of Arizona, Ken Buck of Colorado, Tim Burchett of Tennessee, Eli Crane of Arizona, Matt Gaetz of Florida, Bob Good of Virginia, Nancy Mace of South Carolina and Matt Rosendale of Montana – joined 208 Democrats to oust McCarthy out of power in a 216-210 vote.
House Majority Leader Steve Scalise (R-La.) is the early pick to replace McCarthy, who has said he will not run for speaker again.
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