I have mentioned before that working for the Federal Government is to be a political football.* We now are in the third Federal shutdown this calendar year.
The first shutdown for the calendar year 2018 was from Saturday, January 20th to 22nd and regarded the failure of a Sen. Shumur proposal to give Pres. Trump his money for The Wall in exchange for legal status for DACA, the Hispanic Dreamers who came to the U.S. as children illegally.**
But on Friday afternoon, as the hours ticked away toward a government shutdown, Schumer went to the White House and told [on Friday, January 19th] Trump he could have his wall. “The president picked a number for the wall, and I accepted it,” Schumer recalled in the midst of the shutdown. He had agreed to a significant sum of money for the wall—reported to be $20 billion, though the Democrat’s office will neither confirm nor deny that figure—in exchange for Trump’s support of permanent protections for the nearly 700,000 young undocumented immigrants covered under the Obama-era Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program.**
While this shutdown was mainly over a weekend, employees had to prepare to shutdown at a moments notice before that harming productivity.
The current shutdown is longer and has lasted more than a week with no end in sight, though the Dems take over of House of Representatives on Thursday. There is no guarantee that Trump will sign a bill giving him $5 billion for his "WALL." As seen above, he backed off even more money if he would give Dreamers legal status. When you agree to a point, he tends to add others like getting rid of chain immigration or lottery immigration. As to this shutdown, he already had a deal once but then backed off when the Fox News crew didn't like it.
* http://stopcontinentaldrift.blogspot.com/2018/03/fired-by-federal-government-biographical.html
http://stopcontinentaldrift.blogspot.com/2018/01/2018-lost-fiscal-year.html
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