[hypeatei]

The President typically has a lot of influence over party members in normal times, the Republican sychopants who are in Congress now will do whatever he says. A bipartisan border bill was killed before Trump even got re-elected[0] simply because he didn't want it passed.

0: https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/congress/republicans-kill-b...

[anonymousiam]

Face it: The lobbyists own congress. This shutdown exists because one group of lobbyists is unhappy about the gravy train drying up.