SHUTDOWN: White House Delays Davos Departures

The Associated Press reports:

The White House said Monday that Cabinet members are delaying their departure for this year’s World Economic Forum meeting in Davos, Switzerland amid the federal government shutdown. Spokeswoman Sarah Huckabee Sanders said they will determine what to do “as the day goes on and as we see how the next couple of hours go.”

Treasury Secretary Stephen Mnuchin is leading a delegation of Cabinet members and top aides to the glitzy summit in the Swiss Alps. He was scheduled to leave Monday, with President Donald Trump following later in the week.

Trump planned to bring his “America First” message to the conference, a gathering of global political and business elites which has rarely been attended by recent sitting presidents.

The shutdown has already cost Trump a weekend of golfing and verbal rimjobs from the gruesomely stretched faces at Mar-A-Lago. He’d be furious to miss Davos as well.