The office of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) said that an in-person dinner for new Democratic members of the House of Representatives was canceled following a viral photo showing tables being set up for the event—with some questioning the optics in the midst of the CCP virus pandemic.
Pelosi faced backlash after the photo surfaced on social media, appearing to show tables spaced out several feet apart inside the Capitol in Washington. Pelosi was quoted by the Washington Post as saying that the arrangement would be safe and “very spaced.”
