There’s a new speaker in town —at least, temporarily.
Interim Speaker Patrick McHenry kicked off his stint as interim Speaker by kicking former Speaker Nancy Pelosi out of her private office on Capitol Hill; McCarthy had previously let Pelosi stay in the cushy spot.
“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.
It only took McHenry hours to make the move.
“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, Nance —it’s moving day.
Nancy Pelosi is evicted from her private Capitol Hill office by interim House Speaker Patrick McHenry https://t.co/U20N7qd8KB pic.twitter.com/hQYnBvNx7F
— Daily Mail US (@DailyMail) October 4, 2023
