It didn’t take long for acting Speaker Patrick McHenry to make headlines; McHenry immediately moved to force former Speaker Nancy Pelosi out of her cushy private office in the Capitol.
“Please vacate the space tomorrow, the room will be re-keyed,” wrote a top aide on the Republican-controlled House Administration Committee. The room was being reassigned by the acting speaker “for speaker office use,” the email said.
“With all of the important decisions that the new Republican Leadership must address, which we are all eagerly awaiting, one of the first actions taken by the new Speaker Pro Tempore was to order me to immediately vacate my office in the Capitol,” Pelosi said in a statement, referring to McHenry (R-NC).
“This eviction is a sharp departure from tradition. As Speaker, I gave former Speaker [Dennis] Hastert a significantly larger suite of offices for as long as he wished.”
Sorry, Nancy —find some new digs.
Nancy Pelosi evicted from her private office in the Capitol by interim House speaker https://t.co/nXXEGKbGBJ
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