Article snippet: MORE (D-Calif.) for warning she may postpone the State of the Union address by scrapping her planned trip overseas. In a letter to Pelosi, Trump told her that a congressional delegation trip she intended to take to Brussels, Egypt and Afghanistan, which he dismissed as a “public relations event,” is now “postponed.” “We will reschedule this seven-day excursion when the shutdown is over,” Trump wrote. “I also feel that, during this period, it would be better if you were in Washington negotiating with me and joining the Strong Border Security movement to end the shutdown.” The announcement means that Trump will refuse to provide military transportation for lawmakers to make the journey, which would have included a stop in a war zone, according to the White House. Trump added, however, if Pelosi wanted to go ahead by flying commercial, “that would certainly be your prerogative.” The letter was Trump’s first response to Pelosi’s proposal to move the State of the Union back from its scheduled date on Jan. 29. Pelosi cited security concerns related to the record-long shutdown. The White House had remained unusually silent in the 24 hours after the Speaker sent her letter and officials had said they were in no rush to respond. “If she had gone on this trip, she would have guaranteed that 800,000 federal workers would not receive their second paycheck because she would not have been here to negotiate any kind of deal,” White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders ... Link to the full article to read more