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Fri Jan 25, 2019, 09:44 PM Jan 2019

Pelosi: SOTU 'not planned' yet [View all]

By Clare Foran and Jim Acosta, CNN
Updated 4:52 PM ET, Fri January 25, 2019

... At a news conference following Trump's announcement that there was a deal to end the partial government shutdown, Pelosi was asked by a reporter if the State of the Union will go on as originally scheduled for Tuesday night.

"The State of the Union is not planned now," the California Democrat responded, standing next to Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, a New York Democrat. "What I said to the President is when the government is open we will discuss a mutually agreeable date, and I'll look forward to doing that and welcoming the President to the House of Representatives for the State of the Union when we agree on that."

A senior White House official appeared to agree that the President's State of the Union address will not be on Tuesday.

Asked about a later date, the official said: "You need to ask the speaker that" ...

https://www.cnn.com/2019/01/25/politics/pelosi-state-of-the-union-date/index.html

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