What is the end game regarding the shutdown?

[Joe941]

How does this end? It seems tRump will eventually have to cave.

[maxsolomon]

1. He was hired to burn it all down, so he'll dig in.

Eventually, Pelosi will throw him a bone that allows him to declare victory.

Because she is an adult.

[Joe941]

5. I doubt Pelosi will throw him a bone.

[maxsolomon]

6. the current deal taking shape in the Senate is an extra 300 million for "Border Security"

over the current 1.6 billion.

if the Dem house approves that, she threw him a bone.

[Tom Rinaldo]

2. DACA trade. Maybe. Probably not though n/t

[GulfCoast66]

3. TSA employees don't make shit for income

It won’t take long without pay and they will start finding new jobs. They will have to.

That will be exciting.

[TJKatd]

4. With Christmas days away...

I think there’ll be some kind of deal.

I wouldn’t be surprised though if a “shutdown” happened if a deal doesn’t happen. Trump was getting too much grief when it looked like he was ready to cave earlier in the week. Plus, considering no one will be paying attention to Washington for the next two weeks, few will notice.

[gratuitous]

7. Trump caves, declares it victory anyway, and Congress moves on

As long as Trump gets his brag on, his nincompoop supporters will think he won again.