Pelosi doesn't care if the Dems lose the House and she loses The Speakership if by getting this bill passed she can enrich herself by a couple hundred million dollars. I mean, two hundred million is nothing in a $3.5 trillion budget, an accounting error no one will even notice. And her seat will be safe.
“Pelosi doesn’t care if the Dems lose the House and she loses The Speakership if by getting this bill passed she can enrich herself by a couple hundred million dollars.”
Pelosi and her husband already have far more money than they can spend in their remaining lifetimes. Her net worth is estimated north of $120 million by several sources. It is therefore doubtful adding to her net worth is the primary motivator in her life. Anyone past normal retirement age, still swimming in the DC sewer, is motivated by power and the ego gratification that comes from seeing one’s name in print and face on the television as one of the biggest movers and shakers in the country. She is as big a media hound as was John McCain.