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Popular-vote-loser Donald Trump's epic cave on the partial government shutdown comes after Thursday's failed efforts and a meltdown in Mitch McConnell's conference.
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer spoke after Trump's capitulation, not to take a victory lap but to reiterate that there will not be a wall, and that Congress matters. "Our unity is our power, and that maybe is what the president underestimated," said Pelosi. As she reiterated in her remarks, the Democrats insisted that negotiations on border security would not start until government reopened, and that's precisely what they got.
The failed votes in the Senate kickstarted the agreement on that side, ultimately ending in this proposal advanced by Schumer: a short-term continuing resolution that opens up government and the announcement of a Senate-House conference on the Homeland Security funding bill to hammer out border security. Schumer insisted there could not be any funding in this agreement for the wall, and there isn't.
What is in it: funding for the shuttered agencies at their current levels for three weeks, and the conference agreement between the two chambers. That's pretty much it. Trump's "down payment" for the wall that he was absolutely insisting he had to have, he didn't get. The Senate and House are both going to vote by unanimous consent today, and Trump will sign it (provided Ann Coulter doesn't get to him first).
Oh, and on the State of the Union? Pelosi said they'll find a "mutually agreeable" date once government is reopened.