As mentioned before, Pelosi's ascend was a great shake-up of American politics. The Republican Party now found itself in the opposition; and the Democrats were now the party in power, holding the Presidency and the House of Representatives. Once in power, President Pelosi began crafting an ambitious agenda to present to the nation. Holding the 2018 Midterm results - which overall saw Democratic gains - as a mandate, Pelosi enacted several measures in her first days.
The most notable actions were the firing of Attorney General William Barr, the signing of various executive orders; including the ending of border wall funding, ending the family separation at the border, ending tariffs with China and other countries, and imposing several sanctions on Russia.
Naturally, the Republican Party exploded the moment Pelosi became President of the United States, as Republican politicians and supports alike saw one of their most disliked figures in the last years assume the most important political office in the nation. Immediately after Pelosi's inauguration, several conservative groups challenged the 1947 Presidential Succession Act - the law in effect at that time - in the courts; in an effort to hold Pelosi's Presidency as literally illegal.
In the Senate, still controlled by the GOP, the majority party Senators announced they were to block all nominees made by the new President. Denounced as obstructionists by the Democrats, Republican Senators (Most notably Cotton and Cruz) attacked the Democratic Party as 'serial impeachers' and Pelosi as a power-hungry impostor President.
This ensured the failure of almost all (More than 95%) of Pelosi's nominees. The most important these was the defeats of VP nominee Sherrod Brown, Attorney General David Ogden, Secretary of Education Vincent Matthews, and Treasury Secretary Peter Orszag.
The vacancy of these critical cabinet posts greatly weakened the Pelosi administration, which also couldn't do much in the aspect of 'getting things done' and signing bills. In less than three weeks, the new President was left to govern by Executive Order. The 'gang of four', so strong just a month ago, dissolved as Senators Collins and Sasse, which faced re-election in 2020, dared not to anger Republican supporters.
As Congress slowed to a halt, and partisan trench warfare began on Capitol Hill, the economy continued its downward trend caused by the small to medium-sized drops the Stock Market suffered every day due to the volatile political situation. The unemployment rate rose to 4.5% by the middle of October, a rate which was last seen in March 2017. Pelosi's approval ratings, which weren't that high during the last decade of her career, dropped to as low as 34%.
Due to the open war between both the Democratic and Republican parties in Congress and in the White House (Some Trump-Pence holdouts remained in the Cabinet, due to the Senate wall), a new protest movement appeared on Washington D.C and several other major American cities. Modeling themselves off the 'yellow vest' movement in France, the demonstrators (And rioters in some cases) were relatively non-partisan, as they were a reaction movement against the deadly deadlock in Washington - although they were composed of all ideologies.
The most remembered achievement of this new movement was perhaps the blocking of Brooklyn Bridge, which lasted from October 24 to October 28. Around 1016 protestors camped at the iconic New York City bridge, until they were driven away by the police at orders of Mayor DeBlasio and Governor Cuomo, leaving several injured at at least ten dead.
Growing unrest in the country and a pessimistic economic outlook left Pelosi in a bad position. Although her personal standing was very strong in the sense that she believed the mandate the 2018 Midterms had given her - her once solid reputation amongst some members of the Democratic Party was left in question.
Pelosi, in an attempt to palliate some part of the economic troubles, signed executive orders that increased spending in already existing Government institutions - any major changes needed Congressional approval, which was out of the question - and, though there was a slight recovery, the outlook still seemed bleak.
However all of this, Nancy Pelosi still seemed viable by the end of October, and with the Senate GOP realizing they won't survive blockading everything until 2020, the party seemed to be willing to compromise on some issues.
But, a new event broke with this truce. On November 1st, 2019, in Los Angeles; two young protestors named Maurice Davis and John Alexander were killed by the police after the march in the city turned violent. The event caused a new uprising in the city, and the damages inflicted rival those (Or even beat) the ones of 1992.
President Pelosi, realizing her position untenable if she didn't act quickly, called for a meeting of all major Democratic Party leaders of all states, in an attempt to finally unite everyone in the Democrats with her, with a common rival in the GOP.
However, by November 6th (Date of the meeting), a large number of Democratic politicians had distanced themselves from Pelosi - which had an average approval of 30% - and called her leadership into question. An informal vote took place in the 'convention' (Led by Speaker Ryan), and although the President had emerged with a slight majority in it, it was a mortal wound. With the situation worsening and that 'number' of Democrats against her leadership quickly becoming a majority in all likely cases, Pelosi resigned.
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On November 8th, 2019, the official inauguration of the 48th President of the United States, Charles Ernest Grassley.
