The government's closure crisis defers Trump's speech and crowds protesting the Congress

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - US President Donald Trump, under the pressure of his Democratic rivals, has postponed his State of the Union speech until the government's second-month closure ends without a solution to the crisis that has sent hundreds of thousands of workers to temporary forced unemployment.

In a tweet on Twitter late on Wednesday morning, Trump said he would wait for the government closure to end the speech originally scheduled for Congress this month at a joint session of the House and Senate.

He added that he would not resort to an alternative way to deliver the speech, criticizing the House Speaker Nancy Pelosi for withdrawing an invitation addressed to him to deliver the speech.

Hours before the twinkle, the US president had said the government closure would last for a while, and he was surprised by Pelosi's insistence on preventing him from delivering the State of the Union address in Congress.

Pelosi said the House would not accept any settlement to host the State of the Union address before the government's closure was closed and accused the president of taking some Republican members of Congress hostage, not just federal officials.

The speaker of the House of Representatives, which is dominated by Democrats, decided to prevent Trump from speaking as part of the continuing dispute over the financing of the border wall with Mexico.

Trump is required to sign a government budget of 5.7 billion dollars to build a fortified wall on the southern border of the United States to stop the infiltration of immigrants from Central and South America. The wall is a national security issue. Democrats refuse to give it because they consider the wall immoral.

Several rounds of negotiations between the two sides failed, and as a compromise Trump offered days before a compromise that would provide legal protection to hundreds of thousands of immigrants, Democrats rejected the offer. Trump was a bitter slate to resort to a state of emergency to secure the funding of the wall but he did not.

The crisis has affected 800,000 government employees and has not been paid, and warnings have been raised that the US economy has been affected by the crisis.

Congressional protest
Yesterday, crowds of government officials gathered in the Senate building in Washington to protest against the government closure.

Demonstrators kept silent for about 33 minutes, counting a minute of silence for each day of the 33-day government closure on Wednesday.

"We do not want to pay our salaries anymore," he said, referring to NGOs that provide free food for the unemployed and homeless and have no income, which they may be forced to do if the government closure crisis does not end.