President Donald Trump just sent a letter to Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi saying that since there are no security concerns regarding the State of the Union speech, he will be “honoring” Pelosi’s earlier invitation and will deliver the speech as scheduled on January 29:
JUST IN: President Trump tells Speaker Pelosi: See you on Tuesday for my State of the Union Address. pic.twitter.com/Fok8t44QTW
— Ed O'Keefe (@edokeefe) January 23, 2019
Your move, Nancy:
As a reminder it takes a joint resolution of Congress to green light the State of the Union, and neither chamber has passed one yet. And @SpeakerPelosi decides what the House takes up. https://t.co/efoNmqTzF5
— Phil Mattingly (@Phil_Mattingly) January 23, 2019
And it doesn’t sound like she’s going to let it happen:
Pelosi suggested to her members this morning not to invite their families to Washington next week, a sign she had no plans to let the State of the Union take place in the House. She has yet to officially say the SOTU is off https://t.co/R2ypx1Ev4C
— Manu Raju (@mkraju) January 23, 2019
According to reports, the two haven’t even talked in two weeks:
Important to note, Speaker Pelosi and President Trump haven't talked in more than a week so these letters and the president's tweets are the only communications between the two. The ball is now in Pelosi's court and the bad blood is at a fever pitch.
— Yamiche Alcindor (@Yamiche) January 23, 2019
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