{"id":199816,"date":"2019-12-20T22:18:58","date_gmt":"2019-12-20T22:18:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/usa.timesofnews.com\/trump-accepts-pelosis-invitation-to-give-state-of-the-union-address-on-feb-4.html"},"modified":"2019-12-20T22:18:58","modified_gmt":"2019-12-20T22:18:58","slug":"trump-accepts-pelosis-invitation-to-give-state-of-the-union-address-on-feb-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/usa.timesofnews.com\/breaking-news\/political\/trump-accepts-pelosis-invitation-to-give-state-of-the-union-address-on-feb-4.html","title":{"rendered":"Trump accepts Pelosi&#8217;s invitation to give State of the Union address on Feb. 4"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>House Speaker Nancy Pelosi on Friday <a href=\"javascript:void(0)\">invited President Donald Trump to deliver a State of the Union address<\/a> on Feb. 4.<\/p>\n<p>Trump accepted Pelosi&#8217;s invitation, a White House spokesman said later Friday.<\/p>\n<p>The invitation suggests that despite the bitter partisan divide over the impeachment process, Pelosi seeks to avoid repeating the prior year&#8217;s political fight, when the annual address was used in a game of political tug-of-war amid a government shutdown.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;In the spirit of respecting our Constitution, I invite you to deliver your State of the Union address before a Joint Session of Congress on Tuesday, February 4, 2020 in the Chamber of the U.S. House of Representatives,&#8221; Pelosi wrote in a letter to Trump.<\/p>\n<p>Her spokesman, Drew Hammill, tweeted out a copy of the brief letter Friday afternoon.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>Trump&#8217;s last State of the Union address was delayed amid a partial government shutdown \u2014 the longest in U.S. history \u2014 which stemmed from an impasse between Congress and the White House over his demand for funding for a wall on the border with Mexico.<\/p>\n<p>Pelosi threatened to block Trump&#8217;s speech before Congress because &#8220;a State of the Union address has never been delivered during a government shutdown.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>She suggested he either reschedule the address or simply submit it in writing \u2014 an option that no president in decades had exercised.<\/p>\n<p>Pelosi and Trump <a href=\"javascript:void(0)\">eventually agreed<\/a> to allow that address before a joint session of Congress on Feb. 5.<\/p>\n<p>Article source: https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/2019\/12\/20\/nancy-pelosi-invites-trump-to-give-feb-4-state-of-the-union-address.html<\/a>\r\n<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>House Speaker Nancy Pelosi on Friday invited President Donald Trump to deliver a State of the Union address on Feb. 4. Trump accepted Pelosi&#8217;s invitation, a White House spokesman said later Friday. The invitation suggests that despite the bitter partisan divide over the impeachment process, Pelosi seeks to avoid repeating the prior year&#8217;s political fight, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[84],"class_list":["post-199816","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-political","tag-political"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/usa.timesofnews.com\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199816","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/usa.timesofnews.com\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/usa.timesofnews.com\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usa.timesofnews.com\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usa.timesofnews.com\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=199816"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/usa.timesofnews.com\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199816\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/usa.timesofnews.com\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=199816"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usa.timesofnews.com\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=199816"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usa.timesofnews.com\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=199816"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}