WASHINGTON �� President Donald Trump plans to mark his 100th day in the White House with a "big" rally in Pennsylvania's capital city.
But there's a certain diversionary feel to his timing for the latest visit to a key swing state he won in defeating Hillary Clinton last year �� including that there could be a federal government shutdown starting that day.
"Look forward to it!" Trump write in a Twitter message Saturday.
A campaign official confirmed that the location would be in Harrisburg. Trump held a post-election rally in Hershey, Pa., in December.
This time, Trump picked a day filled with other potential news and events, not all of it so flattering to a new president marking a traditional milestone for measuring early accomplishments.
Most notable is the potential federal shutdown. A current government spending bill expires after Friday; lawmakers and the White House have yet to agree on a measure that would continue to fund agencies through the end of the fiscal year on Sept. 30.
There is also an anti-Trump climate march that day, focused on Washington with events planned around the world.
Trump's rally will fall on the same night as the White House Correspondents' Association Dinner, which the president and his aides have said they won't attend. The annual banquet is a Washington tradition signifying comity between the president and the press. The simultaneous events may force news agencies to decide whether to send reporters to Harrisburg rather than let them attend the dinner.
