Nancy Pelosi's file

Democrat from California

Rep. Nancy Pelosi has served as speaker of the U.S. House since January 2019. Formerly the speaker of the House from 2007-11, Pelosi served as the House minority leader from 2003 to 2007 and from 2011 to 2019.

The PolitiFact scorecard

True 6 (13%) (6%)
Mostly True 5 (11%) (5)
Half True 12 (27%) (12)
Mostly False 9 (20%) (9)
False 9 (20%) (9)
Pants on Fire 4 (9%)(4)

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Recent statements by and about Nancy Pelosi

All voters can re-register, even on Election Day

Nancy Pelosi

Says voter roll purge would mean "more than 200,000 registered Wisconsin voters will be prohibited from voting."

— PolitiFact Wisconsin on Wednesday, December 18th, 2019

Nearly all work is replacement fencing

Nancy Pelosi

President Trump "hasn’t built any new (border) wall" during his time in office.

— PolitiFact California on Friday, November 22nd, 2019

More lawmakers, but rights about the same

Nancy Pelosi

Says under the Democratic impeachment inquiry, Republicans get "more rights than we ever received in any of the other impeachment proceedings."

— PolitiFact National on Monday, November 4th, 2019

Debate not abated

Nancy Pelosi

"There’s bipartisan consensus that (Matthew Whitaker’s) appointment violates the Appointments Clause of the Constitution."

— PolitiFact National on Thursday, November 29th, 2018

Outdated data point

Nancy Pelosi

"Between the first and second quarters of 2018 — after the tax cuts were enacted — real wages fell by 1.8 percent."

— PolitiFact National on Wednesday, August 1st, 2018

Recent stories featuring Nancy Pelosi

Why many Democrats have supported the USMCA deal

Democrats on the debate stage in Iowa said President Donald Trump's renegotiated trade deal with Mexico and Canada is marginally better than the agreement it’s set to replace. Here's why many Democrats have supported the USMCA.

PolitiFact Wisconsin's 'High Five' for December 2019

PolitiFact takes a look at the top fact-checks that closed out the year 2019.

Top 10 fact-checks of 2019

Our 10 most clicked-on fact-checks of the year included statements about President Donald Trump, former Vice President Joe Biden and a perennial favorite about pensions for Congress.

Trump repeats many falsehoods in letter to Pelosi about impeachment

On the day before the impeachment vote in the House, President Donald Trump wrote a letter to House Speaker Nancy Pelosi to protest impeachment. We fact-checked several misleading statements.

Read the House Intelligence Committee's full impeachment report

The House Intelligence Committee released an impeachment report that accuses President Donald Trump of abuse of power in his foreign policy exchanges with Ukraine.