Nobody gets the story right in the first 36 hours.
I wouldn’t be quite so hasty to bet the farm that this shutdown was Pickett’s Charge at Gettysburg…yet.
As Michael Caine said in A Shock To The System:
“Let’s not all panic. You, you and you, panic. Everyone else, remain calm.”
Least of all at a purported unilateral cave-in from the same guy that hilariously cancelled Queen Alzheimers’ junket less than a week ago.
The Democrats have promised all along to “negotiate in good faith” once the government was reopened.
That bluff has been called.