‘Net neutral’: Shutdown unlikely to hobble Trump, former aides say

ANALYSIS — How much political capital did President Donald Trump burn during a government shutdown he mostly left to lawmakers to end?

Perhaps, paradoxically, not very much.

So-called “Teflon Don” might have just survived yet another crisis that would have hamstrung any other chief executive, according to former congressional aides and analysts.

The longest government shutdown in American history gave Trump new lines to attack congressional Democrats, but analysts said it appears the crisis did little to affect his standings with Congress or the American public.

“For the past 43 days, Democrats in Congress shut down the government of the United States in an attempt to extort American taxpayers for hundreds of billions of dollars for illegal aliens and people that came into our country