With regards to the imminent government shutdown of which no one is really speaking, WaPo reports the supposed pledge of President Trump to sign the bipartisan stop-gap bill:
President Trump pledged Wednesday that he would not allow the government to partially shut down next week, backing down from his demand that Congress appropriate billions of dollars for new construction of a wall along the U.S. border with Mexico.
Keeping the government open after Sunday would require Trump to sign a bipartisan spending bill from Congress, something he had resisted committing to for weeks. But Wednesday, with anxiety building on Capitol Hill, he suggested that he planned to acquiesce.
I’ll believe it when I see it. Trump is addicted to high drama, and he may delay signing it until the very last moment.
