So how do people see this shutdown ending? (Keep in mind whatever your views on the reality of the wall and immigration, this is purely a political situation and not a technical one.)
Here are the options as I see them:
Here are the options as I see them:
- Compromise: Trump gets his money, and the Ds get concessions
- Trump relents and the government is reopened without a wall.
- Trump doesn't relent, but is overruled by Congress and the government is reopened without wall $.
- Ds buckle and give him his wall money.
- Trump declares a national emergency, diverts military funds, claims victory and allows a bill to pass that reopens the govt.
- The government never reopens.