(Politico)
JOHN BRESNAHAN 01/28/2019 04:38 PM EST
Speaker Nancy Pelosi has sent a letter to President Donald Trump asking him to deliver the State of the Union address on February 5.
Pelosi had previously rescinded her invitation to Trump to give the address on Jan. 29, citing security concerns due to the government shutdown. Trump and Republicans were furious at Pelosi's unprecedented move, but they were powerless to prevent it.
With the shutdown ending last Friday after a five-week stalemate between Trump and Hill Democrats, negotiations began over the weekend to reschedule the State of the Union as soon as possible, according to several sources. Those calls quickly led to Pelosi extending an invitation to Trump for next week.
“When I wrote to you on January 23rd, I stated that we should work together to find a mutually agreeable date when government has reopened to schedule this year’s State of the Union address," Pelosi said in her Monday letter to Trump. "In our conversation today, we agreed on February 5th.”
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