The State of the Union address isn't canceled – yet.
The number-two Democrat in the House of Representatives said Wednesday that as long as the federal government is in the midst of a partial shutdown, President Donald Trump won't be welcome to deliver the annual speech to a Joint Session of Congress as scheduled on January 29.
House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer said on CNN that 'the State of the Union is off,' sparking a flurry of news stories saying Democrats were denying Trump the chance to scold them on prime-time television.
He told DailyMail.com after the interview, however, that Speaker Nancy Pelosi's refusal 'to plan business as usual' applied 'when the government of the country is partially shut down.'
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi formally requested that Donald Trump delay his State of the Union address in a letter she sent the president Wednesday.
A Hoyer spokesperson said in an email after the CNN interview that 'Mr. Hoyer had not read Speaker Pelosi’s letter and mischaracterized it.'
He appeared to misspeak in saying on the air that Pelosi wouldn't allow Trump to insist on keeping the date rather than rescheduling.
'No,' he said. 'Our response will be, Mr. President, if you want to open up the government, the Senate has seven bills that it can use. ... I think this is about opening up government.'
House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer misspoke on CNN and said the State of the Union Address had been canceled – only to say minutes later that it was being called off only as long as the government is partially shut down
Pelosi, a Calidornia Democrat, cited 'security concerns' amid the government shutdown that has lasted longer than any other federal closure in history at 26 days and counting.
She asked that he wait until the dispute that limits the functionality of the Department of Homeland Security has been resolved to deliver his speech to a joint session of Congress.
Pelosi had invited Trump earlier this month to address the House and Senate, per tradition, on Jan. 29 — a date that the White House accepted.
Now she wants him to wait, noting in her letter that an address has not been delivered in the midst of a shutdown.
'This requires hundreds of people working on the logistics and on the security of it,' she told reporters at the Capitol. 'Most of those people are either furloughed or are victims of the president's shutdown.
Of course, she said there's another solution: 'He can make it from the Oval Office.'
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi formally requested that Donald Trump delay his State of the Union address in a letter she sent the president on Wednesday
Pelosi shared the letter she sent the White House on Twitter that politely asked Trump to reconsider the address she invited him to give
President Trump appears at an event honoring the Clemson Tigers football team at the White House on Monday evening
Pelosi had invited Trump earlier this month to address the House and Senate, per tradition, on Jan. 29, a date that he accepted
The White House did not immediately respond to a request for comment on Pelosi's request.
A group of senators was meanwhile preparing to send Trump a letter of their own, encouraging him to surrender on the shutdown, for now, and reopen the government for three weeks in a show of good faith.
Trump has already rejected the proposal from Sen. Lindsey Graham, a South Carolina Republican who he has spoken with in person or on the phone nearly every day over the last week.
Graham is gathering allies, however, Politico reported, and they intend to send Trump a letter urging him to reconsider. GOP Sens. Portman and Collins are said to be involved with the effort.
Trump has said that he will not end the shutdown until Congress appropriates $5.7 billion to his border barrier that he once called a wall but now says could be made of steel slats or a combination of steel and concrete.
A partial shutdown has been effect over Democrats' refusal to provide the funds since the early hours of Dec. 22. Some 800,000 federal workers are not receiving paychecks right now. Those that have been deemed essential are working without pay, while the others are on furlough.
Trump is meeting today with moderate congressional Democrats at the White House, in an attempt to woo them to his side. No Democrats took him up on his offer to meet on Tuesday, earning a rebuke from their Republican colleagues.
Pelosi on Jan. 3 invited Trump to give his speech at the end of January in one of her first acts as speaker of the House. Her party won control of Congress for the current legislative session in November's mid-term elections.
She did not formally rescind her invitation for Trump to speak to Congress on Wednesday, and her office didn't say whether she would take the additional step, if Trump refuses to acquiesce.
The U.S. Constitution requires the president to 'give to the Congress Information of the State of the Union, and recommend to their Consideration such measures as he shall judge necessary and expedient' in Article II, Section 3 of the document.
For more than 100 years, U.S. presidents mostly delivered written reports to lawmakers on the State of the Union. But Woodrow Wilson delivered his speech in person in 1913, changing the course of American history. Other presidents have followed his example.
Presidents can speak to the American people now through any number of visual tools, and Trump has made frequent use of rallies, social media and short videos to get his point across.
He delivered an Oval Office speech just last week to hammer home his points on immigration, for instance, that every major network halted its regular programming to carry live.
Democrats demanded equal time from cable and broadcast networks to provide a rebuttal — something the party that does not hold the presidency does after the State of the Union each year, as well, putting forward one member of their party to give a prepared response to the president's remarks.
Trump's command of the bully pulpit this year could turn into a televised lecture on immigration that some Democrats could be inclined to boycott.
More than a dozen Democrats declined to attend Trump's speech in 2018, including Rep. John Lewis, a famed civil rights leader. He said he was protesting Trump's reported comments about 's***hole' African nations.
Typically delivered in January or February every year of a president's term, except his first, when it is known as a joint address to Congress and not a State of the Union, the speech provides the sitting executive with the opportunity to lay out his agenda to a captive audience of lawmakers and judges and their guests.
Supreme Court justices in full dress join legislators from both chambers of Congress in the House of Representatives for the president's prime time remarks. The House Speaker and the President of the Senate, who also holds the vice presidency of the United States, look on from seats immediately behind the president as he delivers the address.
Pelosi took her dispute with Trump a step further on Wednesday, threatening his State of the Union address. Their seen here in 2018 during the very same speech on the floor of the House
The first family watches the address from the gallery of the House, alongside guests of the White House in what is known as the first lady's box. House speakers have their own box of guests, each containing 24 each.
Presidents often make mention of the first lady's guests by name and use their trials and tribulations as anecdotes to support their policy positions and proposed legislative agendas.
Trump last year in invited the parents of two teens slain by illegal immigrant gangsters in New York and an ICE agent who tracks down and prosecutes criminal immigrants.
'Tonight, I am calling on the Congress to finally close the deadly loopholes that have allowed MS-13, and other criminals, to break into our country,' Trump said in his 2018 address after name-checking the murdered girls and their parents. 'We have proposed new legislation that will fix our immigration laws, and support our ICE and Border Patrol Agents, so that this cannot ever happen again.'
In 2018, Trump used his speech primarily to lay out the four pillars of the immigration reforms he intended to put before Congress. He made mention of his U.S.-Mexico wall once in that section as he plead with lawmakers to bolster funding for border security.
'The first pillar of our framework generously offers a path to citizenship for 1.8 million illegal immigrants who were brought here by their parents at a young age — that covers almost three times more people than the previous administration,' he contended. 'Under our plan, those who meet education and work requirements, and show good moral character, will be able to become full citizens of the United States.'
Trump said that the second part of his plan 'fully secures the border' and ends the practice of 'catch and release' into the U.S. of illegal immigrants awaiting court dates.
'That means building a wall on the Southern border, and it means hiring more heroes like CJ to keep our communities safe,' he said of his ICE agent guest. 'Crucially, our plan closes the terrible loopholes exploited by criminals and terrorists to enter our country.'
His third and fourth pillars dealt with the diversity visa lottery — a program he wants to end — and chain migration for families of immigrants already living in the country — a practice he wants to limit to nuclear relatives.
Pelosi's full letter to the president, dated Jan. 16, is seen above
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