WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump has been formally invited to deliver his second State of the Union address on Jan. 29.
The invitation comes from newly-sworn-in House Speaker Nancy Pelosi hours after Democrats formally took control of the House and on the 13th day of a partial government shutdown.
Trump has delivered two major addresses before joint sessions of Congress — including his first State of the Union speech last year.
Pelosi writes in her invitation letter that the Constitution established the three “co-equal branches of government, to be a check and balance on each other” and calls for the president to “from time to time give to the Congress Information of the State of the Union.”
