President Donald Trump's political plight gets worse with every day that passes in history's longest government shutdown. Yet at a moment when a conventional president would fold a bad hand and spare the federal workers victimized by the debacle, Trump is digging ever deeper. And the most foreboding sign emerging from Capitol Hill on the 35th day of the impasse is that no one -- not his Republican allies or Democratic foes -- has any idea how he plans to extricate the nation from the darkening crisis. Trump's lack of strategy poses a severe obstacle to nascent efforts that are finally underway among leaders on Capitol Hill to find a resolution. The President's weakening position and adamant refusal to change tack were laid bare Thursday after a failed pair of Senate votes on competing partisan measures. read more https://www.cnn.com/2019/01/25/politics/donald-trump-wall-shutdown-congress/index.html
