Is this an Example of Irony?

Here's a short snippet from a CNN article on the political relationship between President Obama and House Speaker Nancy Pelosi:

"Conservatives like to stereotype some Democrats as rich, isolated and out-of-touch. As the wife of an affluent investment banker, the always expertly coiffed Pelosi looks like exactly the kind of "Limousine Liberal" they're talking about.

Ironically, it's money that makes her powerful. Under the U.S. constitution, the president can't spend a penny without the permission of Congress."

To be clear I'm not trying to start a political debate here lol. My question is, how is that ironic? Wouldn't the word 'coincidentally' be more appropriate? I've always thought I had a decent sense of irony, and something in my brain just thought this example was wrong when I read it lol.

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I'm not seeing the irony in that, considering that it's not her money that makes her powerful in that sense.

"Irony" is perhaps the most misused word in the entire English dictionary.

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