I, like many others, have quit keeping up with the day-to-day stupidity coming from the Trump White House. It is only recently that I have come to understand the details of what happened.
Please correct me if I am misunderstanding something:
The Republican house passed a budget that went to the Senate. Of course the Senate didn’t pass the exact House Bill. With consultation with the White House (and presumably the president), the senate passed a budget unanimously (100-0). All that was left was for the REPUBLICAN house to rubberstamp the Senate’s bill and everyone could go home for Christmas.
Trump suddenly changed his mind (with the help of Fox News and Rush Limbaugh).
If Trump had done his job in the first place, we might have avoided a shutdown.