Politico reports:
As one of his first acts as the acting speaker, Rep. Patrick McHenry ordered former Speaker Nancy Pelosi to vacate her Capitol hideaway office by Wednesday, according to an email sent to her office viewed by POLITICO.
“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.
Only a select few House lawmakers get hideaway offices in the Capitol, compared to their commonplace presence in the Senate. House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries’ staff helped Pelosi’s office make the move, according to a spokesperson for the former speaker.
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NEWS – As one of his first acts as the acting speaker, Rep. Patrick McHenry ordered former Speaker Nancy Pelosi to vacate her Capitol hideaway office by Wednesday
“Please vacate the space tomorrow, the room will be re-keyed”
w/ @DaniellaMicaela https://t.co/iRqbztb0Wu
— Nicholas Wu (@nicholaswu12) October 3, 2023
It’s a move the former speaker is blasting in statement as a “a sharp departure from tradition”
She’s still in SF for Feinstein memorial services and added that while she was there to mourn and pay tribute: “I am unable to retrieve my belongings at this time”
— Nicholas Wu (@nicholaswu12) October 3, 2023
Full Pelosi statement: pic.twitter.com/BSigojhRaC
— Nicholas Wu (@nicholaswu12) October 3, 2023