The House hasn’t held a vote in a month. The Senate has held ten failed votes on the Republican temporary spending bill. President Donald Trump appears unperturbed and uninterested in facilitating the art of a deal in the deeply divided Congress. And there’s no end in sight.

The president’s approach to his second term has been to go it alone, and if not for the courts, he would have been full speed ahead. Republican leadership in Congress has signaled, not in words but in actions, that they’re largely willing to abdicate their role as a coequal branch of government.

The partial government shutdown has been underway for 17 days since Senate Democrats rejected the short-term GOP spending deal. Republicans were unwilling to negotiate with Democrats to address expiring health care subsidies

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