Pelosi is now at odds with the Senate’s Republican leadership about the parameters of the impeachment trial.
WASHINGTON (AFP) — US President Donald Trump has accepted the invitation from House Speaker Nancy Pelosi to deliver his state of the union speech on 4 February, the White House said Friday.
The invite for the annual presidential speech to Congress comes at a charged political moment, with Trump freshly impeached for abuse of power and obstruction of Congress, and facing a trial in a US Senate that is almost certain to acquit him.
It sets up a potentially explosive encounter between Trump and Pelosi, his chief Democratic nemesis in Congress and the woman who launched the formal impeachment inquiry. Pelosi is now at odds with the Senate’s Republican leadership about the parameters of the impeachment trial.
“In the spirit of respecting our Constitution, I invite you to deliver your State of the Union address before a Joint Session of Congress on Tuesday, 4 February 2020,” Pelosi wrote to the president in a letter.
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Trump “has accepted the Speaker’s invitation,” White House spokesman Hogan Gidley said.
Pelosi’s three-paragraph letter also highlighted the system of separation of powers that was created by the framers of the US Constitution: “three co-equal branches acting as checks on each other.”
The reference is notable, given that Democrats accuse Trump of seeking to block Congress’ powers to oversee the executive branch by refusing to cooperate with the impeachment probe.
The speech will take place in the US House of Representatives, the very chamber that impeached him on Wednesday.
