Due to the budget dispute in the United States, the government delegation of the United States with several ministers is not traveling to the annual meeting of the World Economic Forum (WEF) in Davos. Earlier, President Donald Trump had already canceled his participation because of the partial government deadlock.
„Given the 800,000 great American workers who are not paid and to ensure that their team can help where it is needed, President Trump has canceled the trip of his delegation to the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland,“ said the spokeswoman for the World Economic Forum White House, Sarah Huckabee Sanders, yesterday with. The WEF showed understanding.
Trump had announced days before his renunciation of the planned trip. High-ranking government officials such as Foreign Minister Mike Pompeo, Finance Minister Steven Mnuchin and Minister of Economic Affairs Wilbur Ross, however, had stuck to their travel plans.
But that changed when yesterday’s domestic dispute escalated. After House President Nancy Pelosi had suggested that Trump postpone his state-of-the-position speech on the „shutdown,“ Trump blamed the opposition leader for a trip abroad that would take her to Brussels and Afghanistan, among other places. Some Democrats complained, arguing that Trump’s delegation should not fly to Davos.
Prominent absent
French President Emmanuel Macron also canceled his visit to the WEF meeting; He remains at home because of the protests of the „Yellow West“. Britain’s Prime Minister Theresa May has decided not to go to the Brexit negotiations.
