{"id":1208094,"date":"2022-01-11T13:20:06","date_gmt":"2022-01-11T18:20:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1208094"},"modified":"2022-01-11T13:20:12","modified_gmt":"2022-01-11T18:20:12","slug":"pelosi-allied-democrat-predicts-the-house-speaker-will-retire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/pelosi-allied-democrat-predicts-the-house-speaker-will-retire\/","title":{"rendered":"Pelosi-Allied Democrat Predicts the House Speaker Will Retire"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">16<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fpelosi-allied-democrat-predicts-the-house-speaker-will-retire%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1208094&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/media.breitbart.com\/media\/2019\/01\/John-Yarmuth-and-Nancy-Pelosi-Getty-e1641921381671.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" alt=\"image\" \/><\/div>\n<p class=\"subheading\">House Budget Committee Chairman John Yarmuth&nbsp;(D-KY) predicted on Tuesday that House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) will retire after the 2022 midterms.<\/p>\n<p>As Republicans are likely to retake the House in November, the establishment media and now a member of Pelosi\u2019s leadership team are&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/politics\/2022\/01\/03\/wapo-nancy-pelosi-expected-retire-2022-midterms\/\">suspecting<\/a> Pelosi will retire.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"D-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"gmxrevmore\" class=\"H\"><\/figure>\n<p>\u201cMy gut would tell me that this would be her last term,\u201d<span class=\"rollover-people\">&nbsp;Yarmuth <a href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/homenews\/house\/589108-democrats-eager-to-fill-power-vacuum-after-pelosi-exit\">told<\/a> the <em>Hill<\/em>.&nbsp;<\/span>\u201cI see a lot of people who would be the presumed successors donating a lot of money to their colleagues.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Those rumored to be strongly seeking to lead the Democrat caucus if Pelosi retires are Majority Leader&nbsp;<span class=\"rollover-people\">Steny Hoyer<\/span>&nbsp;(D-MD) and Majority Whip James Clyburn (D-SC). Less likely members to take the helm are Rep.&nbsp;<span class=\"rollover-people\">David Cicilline<\/span>&nbsp;(D-RI), Congressional Progressive Caucus Chairwoman&nbsp;<span class=\"rollover-people\">Pramila Jayapal<\/span>&nbsp;(D-WA), and&nbsp;House Intelligence Committee Chairman&nbsp;<span class=\"rollover-people\">Adam Schiff<\/span>&nbsp;(D-CA).<\/p>\n<p>Pelosi, 81, who has come under intense fire&nbsp;from Democrats for her husband\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/politics\/2022\/01\/10\/democrat-sen-jeff-merkley-admits-pelosis-stock-trading-sways-her-legislative-judgment\/\">stock trading<\/a> practices, is facing a mass exodus of fellow Democrat members who are retiring \u2013 26 in all, not including Pelosi. In total,&nbsp;26 of the 37 members leaving Congress are Democrats.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<p>The Democrats planning to leave Congress speaks to the likelihood House Republicans sweep into power, placing Minority House Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) in prime position to win the speaker\u2019s gavel.<\/p>\n<p>McCarthy on Monday&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/politics\/2022\/01\/10\/exclusive-kevin-mccarthy-plans-to-strip-ilhan-omar-off-foreign-affairs-eric-swalwell-and-adam-schiff-off-intelligence-committee\/\">told<\/a> Breitbart News if he were to become speaker, he would kick so-called \u201cpencil neck Schiff\u201d off the intelligence committee&nbsp;and strip Eric Swalwell (D-CA) and Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MN) of their committee assignments.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">.<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/GOPLeader?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@GOPLeader<\/a> McCarthy Vows to Strip Omar, Swalwell, &amp; Schiff from Committees <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/3wElqI4sbq\">pic.twitter.com\/3wElqI4sbq<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Breitbart News (@BreitbartNews) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BreitbartNews\/status\/1480605576325382148?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">January 10, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>\u201cThe Democrats have created a new thing where they\u2019re picking and choosing who can be on committees,\u201d McCarthy said. \u201cNever in the history [of Congress] have you had the majority tell the minority who can be on committee.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBut this new standard which these Democrats have voted for\u2014if Eric Swalwell cannot get a security clearance in the private sector, there is no reason why he should be given one to be on Intel or Homeland Security. He will not be serving there,\u201d he continued.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou look at Adam Schiff\u2014he should not be serving on Intel when he has openly, knowingly now used a fake dossier, lied to the American public in the process and doesn\u2019t have any ill will [and] says he wants to continue to do it,\u201d McCarthy added. \u201cWe\u2019re going to reshape\u2014think about what happened in Afghanistan.\u201d<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_19423218\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\">\n<p><em>Follow Wendell Huseb\u00f8 on Twitter&nbsp;<\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/WendellHusebo?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5Eserp%7Ctwgr%5Eauthor\"><em>@WendellHuseb\u00f8<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>House Budget Committee Chairman John Yarmuth\u00a0(D-KY) predicted on Tuesday that House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) will retire after the 2022 midterms. 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