Trump Might Finally Get His Shutdown

Updated on January 16 at 5:09 p.m. ET The first government shutdown of the Donald Trump presidency has been a long time coming. It has been eight months since the president, in a tweet of pique during a soon-forgotten spending fight with Democrats, suggested that the country “needs a good ‘shutdown’” to fix its mess. The two parties veered away from the brink then, and they have kept refueling the federal tank a few gallons at a time in the months since.