U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi has laid it on the line to the president of the United States.
Donald Trump is no longer invited to speak before the U.S. House of Representatives to deliver his State of the Union speech.
She wrote the president a note telling him of her concerns over “security,” given the government shutdown and how the furloughing of critical security personnel makes it impossible for Congress to protect the president, the vice president, the full congressional membership, the Supreme Court, the Cabinet, the Joint Chiefs of Staff and the diplomatic corps.
So, her message to the president? Deliver the SOTU speech in writing, as other presidents have done. That’s if he is wedded to the Jan. 29 date scheduled for his in-person, live TV speech.
Pelosi wants the government reopened fully before the president speaks to a joint congressional session.
Thus, she is demonstrating — as if the president needed any proof of it — that she is the Woman of the House and that Donald Trump has met his match.