Now that Nancy Pelosi is speaker of the House, her party and President Trump seem to be getting down to the business of not making a deal to end the government shutdown. It may well be that Pelosi and company, confident that the president has helped them brand this as the Trump Shutdown, would rather let the thing drag on and inflict more pain. Trump wanted more than $5 billion for a border wall, the Dems offered $1.3 billion, and Republicans countered with $2.5 billion (although Trump hasn't embraced that number). The president, who has whacked a long list of political and media opponents, hasn't really slammed Pelosi. But they won't, "because the fight over the border wall isn't really about addressing conditions on the border.

Source: Fox News January 04, 2019 08:32 UTC