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Patrick McHenry's First Act: Booting Nancy Pelosi From Her Hideway Office

Predictably, the Speaker Pro Tempore's first act after McCarthy went down in flames was a dick move.

Setting the tone for the remainder of the Chaos Party's time controlling the House of Representatives one would imagine. And with a leadership battle brewing between Steve Scalise and Jim Jordan things can only get worse, not better.

Source: Politico

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.

McHenry, a close McCarthy ally, was first on his list to become acting speaker after the Californian was booted in a Tuesday afternoon vote.

Only a select few House lawmakers get hideaway offices in the Capitol, compared to their commonplace presence in the Senate.

And, as befits the action of the little man in the bow tie, he did it while Pelosi was away from Washington, attending the memorial service for Dianne Feinstein.

The former speaker blasted the eviction in a statement as “a sharp departure from tradition,” adding that she had given former Speaker Dennis Hastert “a significantly larger suite of offices for as long as he wished” during her tenure.

Pelosi had missed the vote to boot McCarthy to stay in San Francisco to attend memorial services for the late Sen. Dianne Feinstein, a longtime friend of the former speaker.

“Sadly, because I am in California to mourn the loss of and pay tribute to my dear friend Dianne Feinstein, I am unable to retrieve my belongings at this time,” she said.

And now also Steny Hoyer.

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