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Friday, January 18, 2019

Shutdown: Trump imposes new restrictions on congressional travel one day after grounding Pelosi's plane




President Trump discharged another shot in the war over responsibility for government shutdown. Trump dropped a military flight Pelosi had booked.

WASHINGTON – President Donald Trump moved Friday as far as possible travel by Congress individuals amid the halfway government shutdown by banning them from utilizing government planes without earlier composed endorsement.
The new approach, declared in a reminder to office heads, was set up one day after Trump dropped a military plane for House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, who was intending to lead a congressional designation to Afghanistan this end of the week.


"By no means amid an administration shutdown will any legislature claimed, leased, rented or sanctioned flying machine bolster any Congressional assignment, without the express composed endorsement of the White House Chief of Staff," composed Russell Vought, acting executive of the Office of Management and Budget.

"Nor will any assets appropriated to the Executive Branch be utilized for any Congressional designation travel costs, without his express composed endorsement," Vought's notice said.

As the administration shutdown entered Day 28 on Friday, Trump insulted Pelosi over deferring her excursion to Afghanistan, while Pelosi's office said it dropped a reinforcement plan since organization spills put voyagers in danger.

"For what reason would Nancy Pelosi leave the Country with different Democrats on a multi day trip when 800,000 extraordinary individuals are not getting paid," Trump tweeted multi day in the wake of dropping the military plane that was to have taken the speaker and other Democratic administrators to the combat area in Afghanistan.

Including a grumbling about movement, Trump alluded to Pelosi's home province of California by saying: "Would somebody be able to please disclose to Nancy and her 'enormous contributors' in wine nation that individuals dealing with homesteads (grapes) will have simple access in!"

Pelosi's office, in the interim, said it additionally needed to drop a business excursion to Afghanistan in light of the fact that the Trump organization spilled subtleties of it, undermining security for the officials who wanted to go.

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