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It's off: Pelosi says no State of Union while govt shut
Trump: Move is 'great blotch'
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House Speaker Nancy Pelosi of Calif. arrives for a House Democratic Caucus meeting on Capitol Hill in Washington, Wednesday. - photo by Associated Press
WASHINGTON — In a high-stakes case of dare and double-dare, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi served notice Wednesday that President Donald Trump won't be allowed to deliver his State of the Union address to a joint session of Congress next week. She took the step after Trump said he planned to show up in spite of Democratic objections to the speech taking place when big swaths of the government are shut down.
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