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 substitute surgical procedure after being injured whereas touring with a congressional delegation in Luxembourg, her workplace mentioned Saturday.
Pelosi, 84, “underwent a profitable hip substitute and is nicely on the mend,” her spokesman Ian Krager mentioned in a press launch.
“Speaker Pelosi is having fun with the overwhelming outpouring of prayers and nicely needs and is ever decided to make sure entry to high quality well being take care of all Individuals,” he mentioned.
On Friday, the Democratic speaker emerita and present U.S. consultant from California was hospitalized after she “sustained an harm throughout an official engagement,” Krager mentioned in a press launch after the incident.
The spokesman didn’t instantly reply to CNBC’s request for extra particulars in regards to 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 submit later Friday, McCaul predicted Pelosi would get better quickly.
“I am upset Speaker Emerita Pelosi will not have the ability to be part of the remainder of our delegation’s occasions this weekend as I understand how a lot she appeared ahead to honoring our veterans,” McCaul wrote.
“However she is robust, and I’m assured she will probably be again on her toes 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 Struggle II.
The U.S. lawmakers had been poised to participate in observances of the anniversary on Friday and Saturday “together with veterans and their households, energetic responsibility servicemembers, authorities and navy officers and overseas dignitaries,” Pelosi’s workplace mentioned forward of the journey.
Krager mentioned 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 Struggle II and their function in bringing peace to Europe.”
“Speaker Emerita Pelosi was personally and formally honored to journey with the distinguished delegation, a lot of whom had members of the family who fought in World Struggle II — together with her uncle, Johnny,” the spokesman mentioned.
“She appears to be like ahead to returning dwelling to the U.S. quickly,” he added.
