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Trump agrees to deliver State of the Union on February 4
President Donald Trump has accepted the invitation from House Speaker Nancy Pelosi to deliver the State of the Union address on February 4, 2020.
“In the spirit of respecting our Constitution, I invite you to deliver your State of the Union address before a joint session of Congress on Tuesday, February 4, 2020 in the Chamber of the U.S. House of Representatives,” Pelosi wrote in a letter addressed to the President dated Friday.
The White House released a statement later Friday confirming Trump had accepted the invitation. It comes just days after the House of Representatives took the historic step of voting to impeach Trump, a move that has led to an escalation of partisan tensions on Capitol Hill.
Now that the House has voted to impeach, the next step will be for the Senate to hold a trial to decide whether to remove the President from office. It’s not yet clear exactly when that will start, but it is expected to begin early next year.
The Senate is at an “impasse” about setting the rules of the impeachment trial, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell said Thursday, leaving the status of the trial in limbo as lawmakers leave Washington until the new year.
The House of Representatives took its final vote of the year this week without appointing impeachment managers or sending articles of impeachment to the Senate, suggesting that House Democrats won’t take the steps needed to start the impeachment trial in the Senate until January.
Despite the fits and starts over the trial, Pelosi and other House Democrats are playing down the prospect of an extended standoff with the Senate over the articles of impeachment passed by the House, however, signaling that it’s only a matter of time before the House does in fact transmit them to the Senate.
There is past precedent for a President delivering the State of the Union in the midst of congressional impeachment proceedings.
Senators were sworn in for the impeachment trial of former President Bill Clinton on January 7, 1999 — and the President went on to deliver a State of the Union address not long after, on January 19, 1999, while the trial was ongoing.
Trump’s most recent State of the Union address attracted attention after it became a point of contention in negotiations related to the partial government shutdown.
In mid-January, Pelosi asked Trump to postpone the address or deliver it in writing, citing security concerns. Trump responded by canceling Pelosi’s use of a military vehicle for an overseas trip, but he eventually acquiesced to her request and agreed to reschedule the speech after the shutdown had ended.
By: NBC Palm Springs
December 20, 2019
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