{"id":22963,"date":"2020-03-24T20:40:09","date_gmt":"2020-03-25T03:40:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=22963"},"modified":"2020-03-24T20:40:09","modified_gmt":"2020-03-25T03:40:09","slug":"trump-delays-deadline-to-acquire-real-id","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=22963","title":{"rendered":"Trump delays deadline to acquire REAL ID"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>President Trump\u00a0on Monday said the federal government will delay requirements for Americans to obtain a Real ID to travel, citing the coronavirus.<\/p>\n<p>Trump told reporters at the White House that he was postponing the Oct. 1, 2020, deadline in order to alleviate crowding at local Department of Motor Vehicles (DMV) offices.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;At a time when we&#8217;re asking Americans to maintain social distancing, we do not want to require people to go with their local DMV,&#8221; Trump said. &#8220;We will be announcing the new deadline very soon.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The law&#8217;s implementation plan previously stipulated that on Oct. 1, 2020, people will need Real ID-compliant identification in order to board commercial flights, enter federal buildings or gain access to American nuclear plants.<\/p>\n<p>Three Democratic chairmen of relevant House committees\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/click1.email.thehill.com\/uhymvzybchhsjzjhsgnccsmmcyskhyhddfcbzpkmwqqmy_jfnbvvjrjwbvfvsnjbtq.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=http:\/\/click1.email.thehill.com\/uhymvzybchhsjzjhsgnccsmmcyskhyhddfcbzpkmwqqmy_jfnbvvjrjwbvfvsnjbtq.html&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1585191186246000&amp;usg=AFQjCNGR7NGlTJZBhtIBIbRKJKQxhw6CQQ\">sent a letter<\/a>\u00a0last week to the Department of Homeland Security asking for the implementation of the Real ID Act to be delayed, citing the rapid spread of the coronavirus.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President Trump\u00a0on Monday said the federal&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22963","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-u-s-a"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22963","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=22963"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22963\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22964,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22963\/revisions\/22964"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=22963"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=22963"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=22963"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}