A once-in-a-lifetime global pandemic has killed over 200,000 Americans and dramatically changed life as we knew it for the foreseeable future. So here she is, four years later, having regained control of the House just in time to preside over one of the strangest, darkest years in history. Twice,” Pelosi says, jabbing a fist into the air. “It felt like getting kicked in the back by a mule. Instead, Pelosi watched from what was intended to be a celebratory election party in DC as Donald Trump, the virulently sexist reality television host who had promised to “repeal and replace Obamacare,” raked in swing state after swing state. She was planning to retire on a high note in 2016 when Hillary Clinton won the presidency, knowing that Pelosi’s proudest accomplishment, the Affordable Care Act, would be in good hands-her legacy preserved. Pelosi was not still supposed to be here. The situation is unexpected for more reasons than one. The 80-year-old Speaker of the House, who would normally be out campaigning and fundraising during a congressional recess, is here alone, apart from a handful of staffers, essentially running the country via Zoom. But three stories up, in an elegant cream-and-gold office overlooking the Washington Monument, Nancy Pelosi is still toiling away at her desk. A few security guards in black COVID masks, practically whispering so their voices don’t echo, have the main floor to themselves. The coronavirus pandemic has virtually emptied out the grand building, shutting down Capitol tours and confining politicians and staffers to their homes.
It’s a sweltering and stormy Thursday afternoon in June, but the marble halls of the U.S. Peaceful protesters just outside the White House gates were dispersed with tear gas, flash grenades and rubber bullets ahead of the President’s visit to the church.ĬNN’s Kevin Liptak contributed to this report.House Speaker Nancy Pelosi photographed in Washington D.C. John’s Episcopal Church, a house of worship used by American presidents for more than a century that was partially burned in a Sunday evening protest. On Monday evening, Trump walked across Lafayette Park in front of the White House, to St. “That has no place, and it’s time for us to do away with that. She said the administration’s treatment of the protesters was a “most unfortunate situation.” “We would hope that the President of the United States would follow the lead of so many presidents before him to be a healer-in-chief and not a fanner of the flame,” Pelosi added. We also know the history that takes us to this sad place,” she said of George Floyd’s death. She also read statements from previous presidents about police brutality. She said the President “has the responsibility to heal.” Holding a Bible at a Capitol Hill event, Pelosi turned to the book of Ecclesiastes and read about a time for healing. John’s Church in Washington, DC, which came after law enforcement forcibly cleared peaceful protesters away from the White House using tear gas and riot shields.
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi on Tuesday cited religious text in response to President Donald Trump’s photo opportunity with a Bible outside of St.
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