Columnist points out after 40 years, Pelosi is leaving Congress with a 'losing legacy' * WorldNetDaily * by Bob Unruh

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Congresswoman Nancy Pelosi snaps at Lindell TV reporter Alison Steinberg on Wednesday, Oct. 15, 2025, when asked about her role in the Capitol mayhem of Jan. 6, 2021 (Video screenshot)Congresswoman Nancy Pelosi snaps at Lindell TV reporter Alison Steinberg on Wednesday, Oct. 15, 2025, when asked about her role in the Capitol mayhem of Jan. 6, 2021

Rep Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., recently announced she will not seek re-election to Congress, setting the stage for an end to her some 40 years in the halls of government in Washington.

And while Democrats undoubtedly will have honors for her as she exits, after years at the controls of government, including years in the powerful position of speaker of the House, the reality may be something else.

“Pelosi will be remembered as a Democratic leader who opposed some of the most positive things the federal government did during her time in office,” charged a commentary posted at the Daily Signal.

Author Terence Jeffrey pointed out her agenda that even opposed plans that would “protect innocent human lives.”

That particular agenda point, debated in 2000, involved the Partial-Birth Abortion Ban Act.

Despite significant bipartisan support Pelosi declared her “strong opposition” to the plan, insisting about abortions, “We want to keep them safe, and we want to keep them legal.”

The fact is the plan was to avoid the procedures in which a living baby is delivered until the boy or girl is partly outside the body of the mother, then deliberately killed.

“When the Partial-Birth Abortion Ban Act came up again in the House in 2003, Pelosi again voted against it. But that year, then-President George W. Bush signed it into law,” the commentary explained.

‘Her support for taking the lives of unborn and partially born children will forever be at the dark center of her legacy,” the commentary said.

She also demanded higher taxes from Americans often struggling to feed their families.

“When President Donald Trump’s Tax Cuts and Jobs Act was considered in the House in December 2017, Pelosi was an adamant opponent. As analyzed by The Heritage Foundation, this act cut taxes for working Americans. ‘The reform will produce larger incomes, more jobs, more investment, and ultimately, more economic opportunity,’ said a Heritage Foundation report. ‘In 2018, taxpayers will save an average of $1,400, and married couples with two children will save $2,917.'”

Pelosi misinterpreted this as a tax cut for the rich.

Then there is President Trump’s border wall, a border security issue on which he had campaigned.

She demanded, “Democrats do not support the wall,” because it was “immoral.”

Explained the commentary, “From 2007 through 2010, during Pelosi’s first term as speaker of the House, more than 2.5 million aliens were apprehended trying to illegally cross the southwest border, according to the Department of Homeland Security. Trump’s strategy was to stop this massive flow of illegal migrants.”

Joe Biden abandoned the border security efforts, but they have been resumed on Trump’s return to the White House.

And CBS confirmed, “Unlawful crossings along the U.S.-Mexico border in fiscal year 2025 plummeted to the lowest level since the early 1970s, amid the Trump administration’s sweeping clampdown on illegal immigration, internal federal statistics obtained by CBS News show.”

Pelosi tried claiming there were fewer illegal aliens entering the country during Biden’s term than during Trump’s first term.

“I don’t think we were clear enough by saying fewer people came in under President Biden than came under Donald Trump,” she claimed.

Politifact quickly corrected her: “Border Patrol agents have encountered people trying to illegally cross the border between official ports of entry 7.2 million times under President Joe Biden’s administration compared to 1.8 million times under President-elect Donald Trump.”

Pelosi further was active in the Democrats’ lawfare against President Trump, including creating a special partisan committee that creatively assigned blame to him for the protest-turned-riot at the Capitol in January 2023.

Twice her schemes to impeach him and remove him from the White House failed.

And long have there been questions about how she was able, on an admittedly healthy congressional paycheck, able to accumulate a net worth of hundreds of millions of dollars.

Bob Unruh

Bob Unruh joined WND in 2006 after nearly three decades with the Associated Press, as well as several Upper Midwest newspapers, where he covered everything from legislative battles and sports to tornadoes and homicidal survivalists. He is currently a news editor for the WND News Center, and also a photographer whose scenic work has been used commercially. Read more of Bob Unruh's articles here.