Trump White House wasn't prepared for a shutdown—and still isn't prepared for what's coming - Daily Kos

A week before the shutdown began, no one at the White House thought there was going to be a shutdown. Donald Trump had already agreed to a continuing resolution to keep the government working into the new year, a resolution that passed the Senate on a 100-0 vote. But then Ann Coulter and Rush Limbaugh made fun of Trump, and everything changed. ....
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