Donald Trump says he won't go to Davos if US govt remains shut down

Trump says he won't attend WEF event if impasse continues; threatens to declare emergency

US President Donald Trump said he will skip the annual gathering of global financial elites in the Swiss ski resort town of Davos later this month if the partial government shutdown isn’t resolved by then. “If the shutdown continues,” Trump told reporters at the White House on Thursday, “I won’t go.”

The US delegation to the World Economic Forum’s annual meeting from January 22 to 25 in Switzerland is to include Secretary of State Michael Pompeo, Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin, Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross and US Trade Secretary Robert Lighthizer.

Mnuchin plans to attend the Davos conference with a smaller US delegation