Nancy Pelosi delivers remarks on the Anti-Corruption Champions Award Ceremony on the Department of State in Washington, D.C, on Dec. 9, 2024.
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Former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi was hospitalized after being injured whereas touring with a congressional delegation in Luxembourg, her workplace mentioned Friday.
Pelosi, 84, “sustained an harm throughout an official engagement and was admitted to the hospital for analysis,” her spokesman Ian Krager mentioned in a press release.
The Democratic speaker emerita and present U.S. consultant from California “is at present receiving glorious remedy from docs and medical professionals,” Krager mentioned.
“She continues to work and regrets that she is unable to attend the rest of the CODEL engagements,” he mentioned.
The spokesman didn’t instantly reply to CNBC’s request for extra particulars concerning the incident.
In a photograph shared by the U.S. Embassy in Luxembourg earlier Friday, Pelosi is seen standing and holding the hand of House Foreign Affairs Committee Chairman Michael McCaul, R-Texas, who led the delegation.
Former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi seen right here on the U.S. Embassy in Luxembourg on Dec. 13, 2024.
Courtesy: U.S. State Department
McCaul’s workplace didn’t instantly reply to a request for remark.
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 War 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, lively obligation servicemembers, authorities and army officers and international dignitaries,” Pelosi’s office 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 War II and their position in bringing peace to Europe.”
“Speaker Emerita Pelosi was personally and formally honored to journey with the distinguished delegation, a lot of whom had relations who fought in World War II — together with her uncle, Johnny. She appears to be like ahead to returning residence to the U.S. quickly,” the spokesman mentioned.
