{"id":73475,"date":"2019-01-23T12:19:49","date_gmt":"2019-01-23T20:19:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/69.46.6.243\/?p=73475"},"modified":"2019-01-23T12:19:49","modified_gmt":"2019-01-23T20:19:49","slug":"speaker-pelosi-to-president-trump-no-sotu-till-government-reopens","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/?p=73475","title":{"rendered":"Speaker Pelosi to President Trump&#8230;No SOTU Till Government Reopens!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Washington, DC&#8230;Dear Mr. President:  When I extended an invitation on January 3rd for you to deliver the State of the Union address, it was on the mutually agreed upon date, January 29th.  At that time, there was no thought that the government would still be shut down.  In my further correspondence of January 16th, I said we should work together to find a mutually agreeable date when government has re-opened and I hope that we can still do that.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/pelosi.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"280\" height=\"320\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-73476\" srcset=\"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/pelosi.jpg 280w, https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/pelosi-263x300.jpg 263w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 280px) 100vw, 280px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I am writing to inform you that the House of Representatives will not consider a concurrent resolution authorizing the President\u2019s State of the Union address in the House Chamber until government has opened.<\/p>\n<p>Again, I look forward to welcoming you to the House on a mutually agreeable date for this address when government has been opened.<\/p>\n<p>Sincerely,<\/p>\n<p>NANCY PELOSI<\/p>\n<p>Speaker of the House<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Washington, DC&#8230;Dear Mr. President: When I extended an invitation on January 3rd for you to deliver the State of the Union address, it was on the mutually agreed upon date, January 29th. At that time, there was no thought that the government would still be shut down. In my further correspondence of January 16th, I [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":73476,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_cbd_carousel_blocks":"[]","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[20,5,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-73475","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured","category-government","category-news","last_archivepost"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/pelosi.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73475","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=73475"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73475\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/73476"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=73475"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=73475"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=73475"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}