Everybody seems to be proclaiming there's no solution to the shutdown and that's utter bullcrap. The House has passed a package of bills re-opening most all the government, without funding for the wall, and all that has to happen is the Senate needs to pass them, and send them to the president for signing. If the drumpf vetoes it, it goes back to the senate and needs only 16 more votes to over-ride the veto. THERE ARE 16 REPUBLICANT MORONS who are sending this country into the abyss. I really try to avoid being an alarmist, but NPR had a rundown of just some of the ramifications of the shutdown. Air traffic control, TSA screening, border patrol funding, FDA inspections of our food and drug supply, federally funded cancer research, possible crippling of ongoing Federal investigations,... this is a whole lot more than just 800,000 workers without one or two paychecks, even though the fallout from that will also be immense. This ploy by drumpf and the Republicant leadership seems like a big vanity stunt, but it's a lot more serious than that. This is extortion, and a form of terrorism. You do not negotiate with terrorists, or they will just keep using that tactic over and over again.
I wish I had some smart-aleck meme to insert right now but i don't.