House Speaker Nancy Pelosi lamented about “the Squad” in a new biography written about her, alluding that the group has to look beyond themselves while serving in Congress.
Madam Speaker, written by Susan Page, USA Today’s Washington bureau chief, is set to be released on April 20. The book features 10 interviews that Page conducted with Pelosi, including one in which the House speaker discussed her feelings about the liberal gang made up of Reps. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Ayanna Pressley, Ilhan Omar, and Rashida Tlaib.
“You’re not a one-person show. This is the Congress of the United States,” Pelosi said, according to excerpts obtained by Axios.
The Washington Examiner contacted Ocasio-Cortez, Pressley, Tlaib, and Omar’s offices for comment but did not immediately receive responses.
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Pelosi also reportedly unloaded about her onetime Senate counterpart, Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, calling him “an enabler of some of the worst stuff,” and she even made a criticism about former President Barack Obama.
The speaker questioned why Obama was unable to deliver home state votes for Obamacare, asking, “Why are we having a problem with Illinois?” And she rejected the notion of the former president getting sole credit for deals she helped pass through Congress.
In a separate excerpt of the book, Pelosi recalls her disappointment by the 2016 election results that handed a victory to former President Donald Trump over then-Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton, who would have become the nation’s first female president.
“I was like, ‘How could it be that person is going to be president of the United States?’” Pelosi said about Trump. “That was saddening, but the election of Donald Trump was stunningly scary, and it was justified to be scared. How could they elect such a person — who talked that way about women, who was so crude and … to me, creepy?”
The book’s excerpts come as Pelosi leads a push to enhance security at the Capitol after a riot broke out on Jan. 6 that left five people dead.
A second attack at the Capitol in early April killed Capitol Police Officer Billy Evans.
Pelosi said Democrats are getting ready to unveil their new security bill, but she faces pressure to follow through on her pledge to create a bipartisan commission to investigate the Jan. 6 attack at the Capitol. In recent months, talks of a 1/6 commission, similar to the style of the 9/11 Commission, have stalled.
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Page admits at times that Pelosi was difficult to interview because of her private nature, a characteristic atypical of most people who hold public office.
“That’s the thing. When people talk about me in public, I’m like — if I go someplace and I don’t have to speak, I’m in my glory. I’m not looking for an audience,” Pelosi said. “I’m as private a person as there is, and a shy one. I’ve had to be in this role — but I don’t intend to go into personal, personal aspects.”
