Nancy Pelosi hospitalized during congressional visit to Luxembourg

Former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., was injured and hospitalized in Luxembourg while on a congressional delegation trip to mark the 80th anniversary of the Battle of the Bulge, a Pelosi spokesman said.

“Speaker Emerita Pelosi is currently receiving excellent care from doctors and medical professionals,” Ian Krager, a spokesman for Pelosi’s congressional office, wrote in a statement to reporters Friday.

Krager said Pelosi, 84, continues to work from the hospital and “regrets that she is unable to attend the rest of the CODEL engagements to honor the courage of our service members during one of America’s greatest acts of heroism in our nation’s history.”

“Speaker Emerita Pelosi conveys her thanks and praise to our veterans and gratitude to the people of Luxembourg and Bastogne for their service in World War II and their role in bringing peace to Europe,” he wrote.

It was not immediately clear what kind of injury the former speaker suffered or how long she would need to be treated at the hospital.

In the statement to reporters, Krager wrote only that Pelosi “looks forward to returning home to the United States soon.”

The former speaker is one of the oldest members of Parliament and won re-election to his seat just weeks ago. She has not said whether she plans to run for another term in 2026, but her campaign has filed paperwork to remain active through the next election cycle.

Fifteen years after being elected the first female speaker, Pelosi announced in 2022 that she was officially stepping down from the House Democratic leadership. Her decision set in motion a wave of generational change among the leadership of her party in the Congress.

She was first elected to Congress in 1987 and has since emerged as a major power broker in the Democratic Party.

Pelosi’s injury comes days after outgoing Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell was injured in a fall in Washington DC on Tuesday.

McConnell, 82, tripped during a lunch with Senate Republicans on Capitol Hill and “suffered a minor cut to his face and sprained his wrist,” a spokesman for his office said.