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Pelosi says interim House speaker McHenry has ordered her to vacate her office in the Capitol building (www.cnn.com)

submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by Adramis@lemmy.blahaj.zone to c/usa@lemmy.ml

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

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[–] Neato@kbin.social 25 points 1 year ago (3 children)

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.zone 25 points 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 24 points 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.org 3 points 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