Trump postpones U.S. House Speaker Pelosi's overseas trip amid shutdown
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(Starting in the United States) President Trump has postponed House Speaker Nancy Pelosi's upcoming overseas trip in an apparent payback for asking him to reschedule his State of the Union speech.
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Aram… more arguments between the pair amid the ongoing government shutdown…

That's right Mark…. The stalemate continues and, by looks of things, seems to be getting worse.
Trump wrote a letter to Pelosi on Thursday saying that her trip to Belgium, Egypt and Afghanistan was being pushed back due to the government shutdown.
He also called her upcoming trip a "public relations" event that would be rescheduled for after the government reopens.
But he added that Pelosi could take a commercial flight rather than a military one if she so wished.
The president's letter came just a day after Pelosi urged him to postpone his State of the Union address, citing the shutdown.
Lawmakers blasted Trump for revealing Pelosi's overseas trip.
House Intelligence Committee Chairman Adam Schiff said the president was being irresponsible.

"Not going to comment on the Speaker's travel plans, frankly there has been far too much said about that already and I think the president's decision to disclose a trip that the Speaker is making to a war zone as completely and utterly irresponsible in every way and I'm not going to comment on the Speaker's travel plans."

Pelosi's spokesman said the speaker's trip was intended to express appreciation to U.S. troops and reaffirm America's commitment to NATO.
U.S. lawmakers usually don't publicize upcoming foreign trips for security reasons.
The speaker normally uses a military plane, which Trump has control of as commander in chief.
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