Nancy Pelosi may be looking for a change of scenery come November.
The House speaker wants President Biden to nominate her to be ambassador to Italy if, as expected, Republicans regain control of the chamber in the fall midterm elections, Fox Business Network’s Maria Bartiromo reported Tuesday.
The US has not had a Senate-confirmed ambassador to Rome since former President Donald Trump’s envoy, Lewis Eisenberg, left the post in January 2021 — and FBN reported Tuesday that the White House is holding the job open for Pelosi.
The speaker’s future plans have long been a subject of DC speculation. Last year, rumors were rife in the nation’s capital that Biden would nominate Pelosi to the post of ambassador to the Vatican. Those rumors were quashed in October when the president tapped former Indiana Sen. Joe Donnelly for the job.
At the time, Pelosi spokesman Drew Hammill responded to the speculation by tweeting to journalist Jake Sherman: “It’s not a rumor when you’ve been told repeatedly it’s false.”
When contacted by The Post Tuesday, Hammill dismissed the FBN report as “utter nonsense.”
“The Speaker has no interest in this position and has not discussed it with anyone in the White House,” he said.
The White House did not immediately respond Tuesday to a request for comment from The Post.
It’s not a rumor when you’ve been told repeatedly it’s false. https://t.co/wKJ96GWhsG
— Drew Hammill (@Drew_Hammill) October 8, 2021
Pelosi, 82, has an affinity for the peninsula — earlier this summer, she and husband Paul were pictured living it up at a seaside resort owned by tenor Andrea Bocelli.
The speaker is on course to win an 18th two-year term representing a deep-blue district in her hometown of San Francisco later this year.
Republicans need to win a net of five House seats in the Nov. 8 elections to regain control of the chamber for the first time since 2018.
