Pelosi calls GOP Leader Kevin McCarthy a "moron" for criticizing mask mandate
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Washington — House Speaker Nancy Pelosi called Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy "a moron" for criticizing the reinstitution of a mask mandate in the House of Representatives.
"He's such a moron," Pelosi said as she entered an SUV outside the Capitol Wednesday morning, after a reporter asked her to react to McCarthy's claim that the mandate was "not based on science." Pelosi had previously said that the mask mandate is within "the purview of the Capitol physician. I have nothing to say about that except we honor it."Ashley White received her earliest combat action badge from the United States Army soon after the first lieutenant arrived in Afghanistan. The silver military award, recognizing soldiers who've been personally engaged by an attacker during conflict, was considered an achievement in and of itself as well as an affirming rite of passage for the newly deployed. White had earned it for using her own body to shield a group of civilian women and children from gunfire that broke out in the midst of her third mission in Kandahar province. All of them survived. She never mentioned the badge to anyone in her battalion.