President Trump has “dismissed the House speaker’s request that the speech be postponed until after Congress addresses the government shutdown.”
He is disrespecting our Speaker and escalating this into a game of chicken. I hope she tells him the answer is still no. Update: at around 2:40 pm Speaker Pelosi reiterated her rejection of the 29th date. I guess he needs to learn “when a Speaker says “No, she means no!”
Antonia Blumberg at Huffington Post
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In a letter to the California Democrat on Wednesday, the president dismissed Pelosi’s stated concerns about security in the wake of the lapse in appropriations and said he would go forward with the address as planned.
Will Speaker Pelosi give in or inform Trump his speech is not happening because she has decided it would look bad symbolically during the shutdown and be disrespectful to government workers?
Wednesday, Jan 23, 2019 · 7:46:51 PM +00:00 · HoundDog
2:40 p.m. Speaker Pelosi reiterates ‘when a Speaker says no, she means no!”
MSNBC is reporting that our Speaker has reiterated that no joint resolution has been passed, so the speech is not happening on the 29th in the House. She repeats her offer to look for a mutually acceptable date.