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For Your Consideration: Citing Furloughed Fed Workers, Trump Admin Nixes Davos Trip

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The US delegation will not attend this year's World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland. The Trump admin says it's backing out of the trip "out of consideration" for furloughed federal employees. It follows President Trump's cancellation of a military flight to Afghanistan transporting House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and others. They move is widely seen as retaliation for Pelosi's suggestion a day earlier that Trump postpone his State of the Union speech.

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