The office of former US House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said in a statement on Friday that the former Speaker of the House of Representatives was injured during a trip to Luxembourg and was taken to the hospital for evaluation.
Pelosi (84 years old) is the first woman to hold the position of Speaker of the House of Representatives and was also a long-time leader of the Democratic Caucus in the House of Representatives.
“While traveling with a bipartisan congressional delegation in Luxembourg to commemorate the 80th anniversary of the Battle of the Bulge, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi was injured during an official engagement and was hospitalized for evaluation,” Pelosi spokesman Ian Crager said in a statement. statement. “Speaker Emerita Pelosi is currently receiving excellent treatment from doctors and medical professionals. “It continues to work.”
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The San Francisco congresswoman resigned from her role as speaker of the House — a powerful position second in line to the presidency after the vice president — in 2023 but continues to serve in the House.
She was re-elected in November for another two-year term starting on January 3.
Pelosi played a key role in passing Democratic President Joe Biden’s sweeping $1 trillion infrastructure bill in 2022, and famously feuded with Republican Donald Trump during his first four years in office, culminating in the moment she ripped up his State of the Union address. National TV. In 2020.
Pelosi was a prominent figure in the American capital over a period that spanned seven presidential administrations. She first served as Speaker of the House from 2007 to 2011, then regained the position in 2019 after her party regained control of the House in the 2018 midterm elections.
Democrats lost their majority in the House of Representatives in 2022, and Republicans will again hold a narrow majority next year when President-elect Trump returns to the White House.
(Reporting by Idrees Ali and Richard Cowan; Editing by Scott Malone)
