Still No Wall and Trump Takes the Fall

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) wins this round.

After a week of sending letters back and forth debating whether the State of the Union address will be delivered as planned while the government remains shut down, the president tweeted on Wednesday that he will respect Pelosi’s “prerogative” to decline to open the House Chamber for the annual event. “I will do the Address when the Shutdown is over,” wrote the president.

Link to tweet

Link to tweet

Earlier on Wednesday, Trump sent a letter to Pelosi informing her that despite her previous letter uninviting him from delivering the address, he planned on showing up to the House Chamber to deliver it anyway. “I look forward to seeing you on the evening on January 29th in the Chamber of the House of Representatives,” Trump wrote. “It would be very sad for our Country if the State of the Union were not delivered on time, on schedule and very importantly, on location!”

Hours later, Pelosi responded with yet another letter, this one clarifying that the House would not consider a concurrent resolution that would allow the president to deliver the address in the House Chamber. “I look forward to welcoming you to the House on a mutually agreeable date for this address when government has been opened,” she wrote.

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