Pelosi postpones Trump’s State of the Union address

Washington: Citing the ongoing partial government shutdown, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi has postponed US President’s State of the Union address in the House Chamber.
“I am writing to inform you that the House of Representatives will not consider a concurrent resolution authorizing the President’s State of the Union address in the House Chamber until government has opened,” Pelosi stated in a note penned down to Trump on January 23.
This afternoon, I sent @realDonaldTrump a letter informing him that the House will not consider a concurrent resolution authorizing the President’s State of the Union address in the House Chamber until government has opened. https://t.co/r1oad0xEAh pic.twitter.com/kGEbayx95u — Nancy Pelosi (@SpeakerPelosi) January 23, 2019 The House Speaker further outlined that she looks forward to welcoming the US President to the House “on a mutually agreeable date” for the address when the government reopens.
“When I extended an invitation on January 3 for you to deliver the State of the Union address, it was on the mutually agreed upon date, January 29. At that time, there was no thought that the government would still be shut down,” Pelosi wrote.
“In my further correspondence of January 16, I said we should work together to find a mutually agreeable date when government has re-opened and I hope that we can still do that,” she mentioned in the letter.