U.S. President Donald Trump gestures after signing H.R. 2, Agriculture Improvement Act of 2018, during a ceremony at the White House in Washington, D.C., U.S., on Thursday, Dec. 20, 2018.
By Emily Zanotti
@emzanotti
January 22, 2019
The White House announced Tuesday that it plans on moving forward with the State of the Union address, and is requesting information on security plans and costs not just from the United States Capitol, but from other, undisclosed locations outside Washington D.C.
Fox News reports that the White House "is still planning to move ahead with next week’s scheduled State of the Union address," but that "details are up in the air" since Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) rescinded her invitation to have the president deliver the speech to a joint session of Congress in the House of Representatives.
The president is tentatively scheduled to deliver the speech on January 29, but no official date has been set on the Congressional calendar — a resolution, passed through the House and Senate, is required to officially schedule the joint session.
But in a letter addressed the president, Pelosi declined to set a date for the speech, claiming that the partial government shutdown had reduced the Capitol police force and the Secret Service to a skeleton crew, making it impossible to guarantee the president's safety and security — and the safety and security of so many legislators — during the ongoing impasse over the federal budget.
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