Nearly 100 days into Nancy Pelosi’s second tenure as House Speaker, she’s ticked off several top legislative goals, negotiated the end to a partial government shutdown and hit a few bumps in the road.
One House Democrat who had wanted a different leader said recently, "I gotta tell you I've been very happy with the way she led our caucus so far."
“I think she’s done brilliantly,” said Norm Ornstein, resident scholar at the American Enterprise Institute. “The Democrats have had now a formidable individual to face off against Trump, something he has not seen in the first two years of his presidency, and I think it’s bamboozled him.” Former Florida Rep. David Jolly, who left the Republican Party last year, described Pelosi’s performance as “masterful.”
Rep. Ed Perlmutter, D-Colo., who’s served in Congress since 2007, was among those last year who wanted new Democratic leadership last year. Pelosi came into the position this year with a much more diverse caucus, with 67 freshman members elected in November, including a number of millennial members who haven’t been afraid to speak out against leadership.
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