Nancy Pelosi delivers remarks on the Anti-Corruption Champions Award Ceremony on the Division of State in Washington, D.C, on Dec. 9, 2024.
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Former Home Speaker Nancy Pelosi acquired profitable hip alternative surgical procedure after being injured whereas touring with a congressional delegation in Luxembourg, her workplace stated Saturday.
Pelosi, 84, “underwent a profitable hip alternative and is properly on the mend,” her spokesman Ian Krager stated in a press launch.
“Speaker Pelosi is having fun with the overwhelming outpouring of prayers and properly needs and is ever decided to make sure entry to high quality well being look after all Individuals,” he stated.
On Friday, the Democratic speaker emerita and present U.S. consultant from California was hospitalized after she “sustained an damage throughout an official engagement,” Krager stated in a press launch after the incident.
The spokesman didn’t instantly reply to CNBC’s request for extra particulars concerning the surgical procedure.
In a photograph shared by the U.S. Embassy in Luxembourg earlier Friday, Pelosi is seen standing and holding the hand of Home Overseas Affairs Committee Chairman Michael McCaul, R-Texas, who led the delegation.
Former Home Speaker Nancy Pelosi seen right here on the U.S. Embassy in Luxembourg on Dec. 13, 2024.
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In an X put up later Friday, McCaul predicted Pelosi would recuperate quickly.
“I am disillusioned Speaker Emerita Pelosi will not be capable of be part of the remainder of our delegation’s occasions this weekend as I understand how a lot she seemed ahead to honoring our veterans,” McCaul wrote.
“However she is powerful, and I’m assured she will likely be again on her ft very quickly. Praying for a speedy restoration, @SpeakerPelosi!”
The bipartisan, 18-member delegation was slated to journey to Belgium and Luxembourg to commemorate the eightieth anniversary of the Battle of the Bulge, when German and Allied forces clashed within the Ardennes area throughout World Conflict II.
The U.S. lawmakers have been poised to participate in observances of the anniversary on Friday and Saturday “together with veterans and their households, energetic responsibility servicemembers, authorities and army officers and overseas dignitaries,” Pelosi’s workplace stated forward of the journey.
Krager stated in Friday’s assertion that Pelosi “conveys her thanks and reward to our veterans and gratitude to folks of Luxembourg and Bastogne for his or her service in World Conflict II and their function in bringing peace to Europe.”
“Speaker Emerita Pelosi was personally and formally honored to journey with the distinguished delegation, lots of whom had members of the family who fought in World Conflict II — together with her uncle, Johnny,” the spokesman stated.
“She seems ahead to returning house to the U.S. quickly,” he added.
