Pelosi says interim House speaker McHenry has ordered her to vacate her office in the Capitol building | CNN Politics
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Former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi on Tuesday said the newly named interim speaker, GOP Rep. Patrick McHenry of North Carolina, has ordered her to vacate her office in the Capitol building.

Truly the most important thing the interim House speaker should be focusing on right now - petty bullshit while someone is mourning a colleague. /s

  • Neato@kbin.social
    25·
    1 year ago

    Pelosi added in her statement that the “eviction is a sharp departure from tradition,” saying: “As Speaker, I gave former Speaker Hastert a significantly larger suite of offices for as long as he wished.”

    “Office space doesn’t matter to me, but it seems to be important to them,” she said. “Now that the new Republican Leadership has settled this important matter, let’s hope they get to work on what’s truly important for the American people.”

    I'm confused. She wasn't the speaker, so why are they re-assigning her office space? Did she somehow still have the traditional "Speaker of the House" office and McCarthy didn't want it/ask for it? Or is she just in a nice office in the Capitol building and McHenry is reassigning the space for…reasons?

    Either way, this seems like a dick move made to spite Pelosi. And by an interim speaker, no less. Republicans truly are drunk with any tiny scraps of power they can get.

    • Adramis@lemmy.blahaj.zoneOP
      25·
      1 year ago

      Or is she just in a nice office in the Capitol building and McHenry is reassigning the space for…reasons?

      This one. McCarthy moved into the speaker's office before the vote was settled that he was the speaker.

    • Drusas@kbin.social
      251·
      1 year ago

      It's tradition for the former speaker to have an office. Pelosi also allowed the Republican who was speaker before her to maintain an office.

      This is just spite.

    • sqw@lemmy.sdf.orgEnglish
      74·
      1 year ago

      the magas want to move into pelosi’s office to try and get high off a whiff of the literal and figurative poopoo that their pals left there on 1/6