Happy Halloween. The government shutdown is now about to enter its second month.

For many Americans this Halloween season, we are merely characters in “It’s the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown.”

Some of us are Snoopy, but not in a fun way. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth comes to mind. He believes he’s the Red Baron, the World War I flying ace, but he’s just Trump’s dog.

Many of us are Linus, sitting in the pumpkin patch, confident that President Donald Trump — I mean the Great Pumpkin — will visit and sprinkle us with good cheer and presents. “Each year, the Great Pumpkin rises out of the pumpkin patch that he thinks is the most sincere,” Linus said. “He’s gotta pick this one. He’s got to. I don’t see how a pumpkin patch can be more sincere than this one. You can look around and there’s no

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