With the Trump-owned government shutdown set to be the longest in U.S. history, exposing Americans to diverse and serious dangers related to everything from national park sanitation to airport security to food safety, Trump announced Friday he would not “right now” fulfill his cartoonish Boss Hogg threat to declare a national state of emergency, but the government is still closed and he’s still waiting for Congress to give him billions for his harebrained steel-slat wall.

Source: Los Angeles Times January 12, 2019 11:03 UTC