President Trumps unprecedented shutdown ended as it began: as a pointless assault from within on the United States government, workers, economy and security. Five weeks after Trump forced the partial shutdown, he accepted the same deal he could have made without crippling the government he was elected to run.
The agreement will reopen the shuttered agencies for three weeks, pending negotiations on border security, without providing any of the billions for a border wall that House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and her fellow Democrats rightly refused to discuss while the closure continued.…
