"GOP has abolished Congress": Pelosi says Republican lawmakers do nothing without Trump's say-so
Source: Salon
Published December 28, 2025 11:41AM (EST)
Former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi thinks her colleagues across the aisle are a bunch of empty suits. During an interview with ABC‘s “This Week” that aired Sunday, the longtime Democratic Party leader said the current majority party has no agenda beyond what President Donald Trump wants.
Pelosi, who will retire at the end of her current term in the House of Representatives, said her fellow lawmakers have abandoned their ability to check the executive branch. “Right now, the Republicans in the Congress have abolished the Congress,” she said. “They just do what the president insists that they do. That will be over, that ends as soon as we have the gavel.”
And Pelosi does believe Democrats will hold the gavel after the 2026 midterms. She backed the speakership candidacy of Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries saying he is “respected by the members” and is “a unifier.” She refused to say whether Trump would face further impeachments, noting only that Democrats would have the “power to subpoena…these agencies of government who are not supplying any information now.”
“[The] one person who is responsible for the impeachments of Donald Trump is Donald Trump. It’s not something you decide to do, it’s what violation of the Constitution he engages in,” she said.
Read more: https://www.salon.com/2025/12/28/gop-has-abolished-congress-pelosi-says-republican-lawmakers-do-nothing-without-trumps-say-so/
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