President Agrees To End #TrumpShutdown Without Funding For Border Wall

Donald Trump announced today that lawmakers have reached a deal to end the longest government shutdown in the history of the country, and fund the government through February 15.

After 35 days of posturing by the president, the agreement includes zero money for his proposed border wall.

From The New York Times:

President Trump agreed Friday to reopen the federal government for three weeks while negotiations proceeded over how to secure the nation’s southwestern border, backing down after a monthlong standoff failed to force Democrats to give him billions of dollars for his long-promised wall.

The decision paved the way for Congress to quickly pass spending bills that Mr. Trump will sign to restore normal operations at a series of federal agencies until Feb. 15 and begin paying again the 800,000 federal workers who have been furloughed or forced to work for free for 35 days.

Trump made note during his announcement that he still has "a very powerful" option to get his way (most probably declaring a 'national emergency') but didn't want to use that "at this time."

It's difficult to imagine how Trump can spin this as anything other than wasting five weeks and inflicting financial hardship on the American people.

JUST IN: "I am very proud to announce today that we have reached a deal to end the shutdown and reopen the federal government," President Trump says pic.twitter.com/N9OqqLaRwr

— CNN Politics (@CNNPolitics) January 25, 2019

Art of the Deal: hold out 35 days to end up where you could have been on Day 1. Only you’ve pissed off the opposition and let down your allies and killed your poll numbers

— Sam Stein (@samstein) January 25, 2019

Pelosi, asked how Trump will handle backdown on reopening government without wall money, gestures toward her office decorations: “we could plant these flowers along the border and he’d say, ‘I got my wall.’ “

— John Harwood (@JohnJHarwood) January 25, 2019

This isn’t just a cave, it’s a collapse. @TeamPelosi and Dems have checked and balanced this most unchecked and unbalanced of presidents.

— Paul Begala (@PaulBegala) January 25, 2019

To build a wall Trump has:
-Delivered primetime Oval Office address
-Toured the border
-Shut the government down for 35 days
-Warned of rapists, murderers, drugs, terrorists coming from Mexico

Right now Trump is folding to Democrats having secured $0 for the wall

— Philip Rucker (@PhilipRucker) January 25, 2019

And Ann Coulter, who goaded Trump into the shutdown, is furious:

Good news for George Herbert Walker Bush: As of today, he is no longer the biggest wimp ever to serve as President of the United States.

— Ann Coulter (@AnnCoulter) January 25, 2019