Both White House spokesperson Sarah Huckabee and U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Nikki Haley have recently said they might not attend.
White House sends mixed signals on U.S. Winter Olympic participation
Nancy Armour:
The U.S. Olympic Committee is not a government organization – it doesn’t receive direct federal funding – and it will make the call on whether to send a team to Pyeongchang. Any other Olympics, for that matter, too.
And yes, I know all about the U.S. boycott of the Moscow Games in 1980. President Jimmy Carter called for it after the Soviet Union’s invasion of Afghanistan, but it still was the USOC that had the final say. …
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