Ex-speaker Nancy Pelosi hospitalized during congressional visit to Luxembourg

By Dwayne Smith

Former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., was injured and admitted to a hospital in Luxembourg while on a congressional delegation trip to mark the 80th anniversary of the Battle of the Bulge, a Pelosi spokesperson said.

“Speaker Emerita Pelosi is currently receiving excellent treatment from doctors and medical professionals,” Ian Krager, a spokesperson for Pelosi’s congressional office wrote in a statement to reporters on Friday.

Krager said that Pelosi, 84, is continuing to work from the hospital and “regrets that she is unable to attend the remainder of the CODEL engagements to honour the courage of our servicemembers during one of the greatest acts of American heroism in our nation’s history.”

“Speaker Emerita Pelosi conveys her thanks and praise to our veterans and gratitude to people of Luxembourg and Bastogne for their service in World War II and their role in bringing peace to Europe,” he wrote.

It was not immediately clear what kind of injury the former speaker sustained or how long she would need to be treated in the hospital.

In the statement to reporters, Krager only wrote that Pelosi “looks forward to returning home to the U.S. soon.”

The former speaker is one of the oldest members of the House and won re-election to her seat just weeks ago. She has not said whether she plans to run for another term in 2026, but her campaign has filed paperwork to remain active through the next election cycle.

Fifteen years after being elected the first female speaker, Pelosi announced in 2022 that she was officially stepping down from House Democratic leadership. Her decision kicked off a wave of generational change among the leadership of her party in Congress.

She was first elected to Congress in 1987 and has since emerged as a major power broker in the Democratic party.

Pelosi’s injury comes days after outgoing Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell sustained injuries in Washington D.C. Tuesday after a fall.

McConnell, 82, tripped during a lunch with Senate Republicans on Capitol Hill and “sustained a minor cut to the face and sprained his wrist,” a spokesperson for his office said. [NBC News]

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