Congressional leaders have shockingly been able to pass a number of spending bills and are planning on passing a continuing resolution in the next month to take care of the rest, thereby avoiding a government shutdown in the weeks before the midterm election.
Meanwhile, the unindicted co-conspirator-in-chief has said that he'll play along and sign those spending bills and the CR, but is still privately obsessing about his border wall. No one is holding their breath on Trump's promises, including "a source close to Trump" who tells Axios' Jonathon Swan that "[The wall] is on his mind. […] I think I would still say we are not going to have a shutdown … and yes, he has explicitly told Ryan and McConnell he won't, but he talks about the wall and keeps talking about it." The source also says that you can't "rule it [a shutdown] out," that it's Trump's "biggest issue" and that "In his gut, he thinks it's good politics."
Give Trump this: he knows his racist base better than anyone—and he knows what's going to energize them, even if it means war with congressional Republicans, and even if it means his base abandoning Republican incumbents. He's perfectly willing to work against them in this election for what he sees as his own personal gain. He'd love being able to tell Republicans they lost Congress because they wouldn't go along with his wall, the very symbol of his white supremacist fever dreams.
And Senate Leader McConnell and House Speaker Ryan will just continue to play along. Chances of a government shutdown right now look to be about 50/50.
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