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mahatmakanejeeves

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Wed Jan 17, 2024, 07:56 AM Jan 2024

On this day, January 17, 2019, Donald Trump canceled a Congressional flight to Afghanistan.

Trump cancels Pelosi trip to Afghanistan amid shutdown

Politics Jan 17, 2019 4:10 PM EST

A spokesman for House Speaker Nancy Pelosi says the trip that President Donald Trump is canceling was intended to express appreciation to U.S. troops and reaffirm the United States “ironclad commitment” to the NATO alliance.

Trump wrote Pelosi on Thursday and said he was denying military aircraft for a trip to Egypt, Brussels and Afghanistan amid the government shutdown. The notice came after Pelosi attempted on Wednesday to delay Trump’s State of Union address.

Pelosi spokesman Drew Hammill tweeted that the previously unannounced trip was to Afghanistan, including a stop in Brussels. He said it did not include a stop in Egypt.

Hammill said Pelosi was to meet with top NATO commanders and troops and “obtain critical national security & intelligence briefings from those on the front lines.”

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2018–2019 United States federal government shutdown

https://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=archives&date=2019x1x17

Fri Jan 18, 2019: First lady Melania flies to Florida on government jet after Trump postpones Speaker Nancy Pelosi's

Thu Jan 17, 2019: Trump says he'll postpone Pelosi's overseas trip over shutdown
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On this day, January 17, 2019, Donald Trump canceled a Congressional flight to Afghanistan. (Original Post) mahatmakanejeeves Jan 2024 OP
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