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Nancy Pelosi Would Prefer Not to

The speaker’s opposition to impeaching Alex Acosta is the only tenable position she can hold, given her skepticism about impeaching Donald Trump.
Source: James Lawler Duggan / Reuters

Speaker Nancy Pelosi isn’t mincing words about Labor Secretary Alex Acosta: He “must step down” over his role in a past sweetheart deal with the sexual offender Jeffrey Epstein, the Democrat wrote in a tweet Monday evening.

But if he doesn’t? Don’t expect her to do anything about it.

“It’s up to the president. It’s his Cabinet,” Pelosi when asked whether she’d consider launching impeachment hearings against Acosta. “We have a great deal of work

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