Pelosi 84 was traveling overseas for fight of the Bulge remembrances
The 84 year old California representative was traveling to Luxembourg for Battle of the Bulge remembrances.
The extent of former speaker injury is unknown at time of this reporting.
A person known with incident told media that Pelosi tripped and fell following a group image that she took with other lawmakers and officials there.
Former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi suffered an injury and has admitted to hospital in Luxembourg.
“While traveling with a bipartisan Congressional delegation in Luxembourg to mark 80th anniversary of the Battle of the Bulge Speaker Emerita Nancy Pelosi sustain an injury during official engagement and was admitted to hospital for evaluation.”
“Speaker Emerita Pelosi was personally and officially honored to travel with the distinguished delegation many of whom had family members who fought in World War II including her uncle Johnny”.
“She looks forward to returning home to US soon”
The U.S, Embassy in Luxembourg posted a photo of Pelosi on its X account on friday.
“We welcome NASA Bill Nelson and Members of Congress to commemorate the 80th anniversary of the Battle of the Bulge in Luxembourg and Belgium” it said
“Te sacrifices of brave WWII soldiers echo from the past reminding us that each generation must continue the fight for freedom and democracy”
Speaker Emerita Pelosi is receiving treatment from doctors and medical professionals.
She continues to work and regrets that she is unable to attend remainder of the CODEL engagements to honor the courage of our servicemember during one of greatest acts of American heroism in our nation history”.
Pelosi has been a prominent figure in Washington over a tenure spanning seven presidential administrations. She first served as House speaker from 2007 to 2011 then regained the job in 2019 after her party took back control of chamber in 2018 midterm elections.
The San Francisco congresswoman stepped down from her role as speaker a powerful position second in line to presidency after the vice president in 2023 but she has continued to serve in House.
She was re elected in November to another two year term starting on 3 january.
Pelosi played an important role in passing Joe Biden sweeping $1tn infrastructure bill in 2022 and popularly feuded with donald Trump during his first four years in office culminating with moment when she tore up his State of the Union speech on national tv in 2020.
Democrats lost their House Majority in 2022 and Republicans will again hold a narrow majority next year when President elect Trump returns to White House.