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NASA, the EPA, and the Department of Commerce would essentially stop functioning, with the vast majority of their employees forced to stay home.

The politicians, including our president, didn't do their jobs, and now the children get punished by the White House.

What's wrong with this picture?

Everything!

This is Harry Reid and Barack Obama's shutdown.

Democrats still refuse to budge.

No willingness at all to compromise.

defund Obamacare.

But where does it end?

It ends with defunding Obamacare.

Oh, .

You've got to realize that even in her world, this makes sense.

Obamacare is going to be one of the worst things, one of the worst things in American history.

We need a smaller government.

When the clock strikes midnight in Washington, the government of this country will run out of money.

Today is the day to celebrate because we have shown that a determined group of senators working together across the aisle can result in positive action.

In this case, the reopening of government.

I can show it to you.

And as you can see, it's beautifully beaded.

It is originally from Africa.

It was very helpful in making sure that everybody's voice got heard.

Well, look at the winners and losers of the government shutdown.

We know there's some substantive winners here.

So this is who Crystal is a thinks are the winners.

Mr. McConnell, Lindsey Graham, as he said, 2018 Democrats.

President Trump tweeted the Democrats are holding our military hostage over their desire to have unchecked illegal immigration.

Can't let that happen.

We will not leave here without the DREAM Act passing, with a DACA fix.

A new year, a new Congress in Washington, and Trump's shutdown enters its third week.

17 days and counting as President Trump refuses to back down on his budget demand of $5 billion for a border wall with Mexico.

And the government remains in partial shutdown.

Here are those departments.

Agriculture, Commerce, Justice, Homeland Security, Housing and Urban Development, Interior, State Transportation, Treasury.

The ripple effects extending to the national parks, piling up with garbage, even human waste, turning them into health hazards.

The U.S.

Office of Personnel Management has advice for those federal employees on how to deal with their precarious financial situations.

They make this suggestion.

Federal employees should offer to perform chores in exchange for rent payments.

One example, this sample letter to a landlord that reads, in part, I would like to discuss with you the possibility of trading my services to perform maintenance, for example, painting carpentry work in exchange for partial rent payments.

Native Bronxite Cardi B now weighing in on the government shutdown.

President Trump moments ago canceling House Speaker Nancy Pelosi's overseas trip to Brussels, Egypt, and the war zone that is Afghanistan, hours before the speaker and her congressional delegation were set to leave, saying in part, quote, in light of the 800,000 great American workers not receiving pay, I am sure you would agree that postponing this public relations event is totally appropriate.

He goes on to write, obviously, if you would like to make your journey by flying commercial, that would certainly be your prerogative.

That fix only opens the government for three weeks, and it does not provide any new money for a border wall, as President Trump had demanded.

Those contractors aren't guaranteed back pay.

The IRS is going to be struggling to get returns out to some Americans on time.

It's clear Trump did not come out on top.

I'm not gonna spin it for you.

He did not cave.

He made a tactical decision, a strategy decision to pick the ground to fight on.

With 179 hours to go before a possible government shutdown.

Less than 70 hours and counting.

Just 18 hours.

13 hours.

11 minutes and 21 seconds.

Less than five hours.

Three hours.

Two hours from right now, your government is going to shut down, and there is nothing that can stop it now.

In the tug of war over the budget and Obamacare, will the president or Republicans blink first?

Neither side looks like they're anywhere close to caving.

When the president came out yesterday and he went through the list of what wasn't going to change, he said, well, we'll have air traffic controllers, Medicare, you got to go to a doctor.

I was sitting there going, wait a second, he's making the case for the Republicans.