{"id":393380,"date":"2019-01-19T03:15:05","date_gmt":"2019-01-19T02:15:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/presstv-pelosi-cancels-afghanistan-trip-blaming-trump\/"},"modified":"2019-01-19T03:15:05","modified_gmt":"2019-01-19T02:15:05","slug":"presstv-pelosi-cancels-afghanistan-trip-blaming-trump","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/presstv-pelosi-cancels-afghanistan-trip-blaming-trump\/","title":{"rendered":"PressTV-Pelosi cancels Afghanistan trip, blaming Trump"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p><strong>House Speaker Nancy Pelosi says President Donald Trump has endangered American troops and civilians working in Afghanistan by disclosing a planned congressional trip to the war-stricken country.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>On Thursday, Republican Trump had prevented Democrat Pelosi from traveling to Afghanistan in what appeared to be a tit-for-tat move over the government shutdown that began on December 22.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Due to the Shutdown, I am sorry to inform you that your trip to Brussels, Egypt and Afghanistan has been postponed,&#8221; Trump wrote in a letter to the top Democrat.<\/p>\n<p>He also said that Pelosi could make her \u201cjourney by Flying commercial,\u201d adding, \u201cthat would certainly be your prerogative.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Pelosi, who was scheduled to leave on Thursday afternoon along with several House Democrats, said Friday that she had cancelled her trip.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe had the prerogative to travel commercially, and we made plans to do that until the administration then leaked that we were&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.presstv.ir\/Detail\/2019\/01\/19\/586171\/US-Donald-Trump-Nancy-Pelosi\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>House Speaker Nancy Pelosi says President Donald Trump has endangered American troops and civilians working in Afghanistan by disclosing a planned congressional trip to the war-stricken country. On Thursday, Republican Trump had prevented Democrat Pelosi from traveling to Afghanistan in what appeared to be a tit-for-tat move over the government shutdown that began on December [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-393380","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/393380","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=393380"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/393380\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=393380"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=393380"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=393380"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}