{"id":55717,"date":"2019-12-21T10:32:33","date_gmt":"2019-12-21T02:32:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=55717"},"modified":"2019-12-21T10:32:33","modified_gmt":"2019-12-21T02:32:33","slug":"us-pres-trump-to-give-annual-address-to-congress-amid-impeachment-drama","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=55717","title":{"rendered":"US: Pres Trump to give annual address to Congress amid impeachment drama"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img src=\"https:\/\/www.brudirect.com\/images\/news\/20191221_america.jpg\" alt=\"\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>\u00a0WASHINGTON, Dec 21 (NNN-AGENCIES)\u00a0&#8212;\u00a0<\/strong>The top Democrat in the US Congress, Nancy Pelosi, has written to President Donald Trump inviting him to give his State of the Union speech on Feb 4 amid the partisan impeachment battle.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The annual speech would come during or soon after his trial in the Senate, where he is likely to be acquitted.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He was formally impeached by the House of Representatives on Wednesday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>House Speaker Pelosi said Trump would be &#8220;impeached forever, no matter what the Senate does&#8221;.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The impeachment vote two days ago in the Democrat-led House of Representatives split almost totally along party lines.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Democrats and Republicans have yet to agree on when the upcoming Senate trial will take place.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The letter sent by Pelosi on Friday begins with a pointed reminder to Trump of the &#8220;separation of powers&#8221; enshrined in the US Constitution.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The three branches &#8211; the judicial, executive, and legislative &#8211; she said are &#8220;co-equal branches acting as checks on each other&#8221;.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;In the spirit of respecting our Constitution, I invite you to deliver your State of the Union Address,&#8221; she wrote, adding: &#8220;Thank you for your attention to this matter&#8221;.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>White House spokesman Hogan Gidley said that Trump had accepted the invitation to speak. &#8212; NNN-AGENCIES<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0WASHINGTON, Dec 21 (NNN-AGENCIES)\u00a0&#8212;\u00a0The top Democrat in the US Congress, Nancy Pelosi, has written to President Donald Trump inviting him to give his State of the Union speech on Feb 4 amid the partisan impeachment battle. The annual speech would come during or soon after his trial in the Senate, where he is likely to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[208],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55717"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=55717"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55717\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=55717"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=55717"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=55717"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}