How (and when) will the Government Shutdown end?

I see no good options for anybody.

I still believe in their intrinsic abilities to find the solution and learn to connect across the aisles the way in which many of then did at one time.

Accept that at present he is only making matters worse for himself, not just the millions of the nation.

One side sincerely believes that the border wall is immoral

Texas landowners dig in to fight Trump's border wall

HIDALGO, Texas — As President Donald Trump travels to the border in Texas to make the case for his $5.7 billion wall, landowner Eloisa Cavazos says she knows firsthand how the project will play out if the White House gets its way.

The federal government has started surveying land along the border in Texas and announced plans to start construction next month. Rather than surrender their land, some property owners are digging in, vowing to reject buyout offers and preparing to fight the administration in court.

"You could give me a trillion dollars and I wouldn't take it," said Cavazos, whose land sits along the Rio Grande, the river separating the U.S. and Mexico in Texas. "It's not about money."

Trump is scheduled to visit the border Thursday in McAllen, a city of 143,000 on the river.

Congress in March funded 33 miles (53 kilometers) of walls and fencing in Texas. The government has laid out plans that would cut across private land in the Rio Grande Valley. Those in the way include landowners who have lived in the valley for generations, environmental groups and a 19th century chapel.

Many have hired lawyers who are preparing to fight the government if, as expected, it moves to seize their land through eminent domain.

The opposition will intensify if Democrats accede to the Trump administration's demand to build more than 215 new miles of wall, including 104 miles in the Rio Grande Valley and 55 miles near Laredo. Even a compromise solution to build "steel slats," as Trump has suggested, or more fencing of the kind that Democrats have previously supported would likely trigger more court cases and pushback in Texas.

Legal experts say Trump likely cannot waive eminent domain — which requires the government to demonstrate a public use for the land and provide landowners with compensation — by declaring a national emergency.

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One side sincerely believes that the border wall is immoral

Bullshit, unless they are idiots. Or should I say sincere idiots. They want illegals or their handlers do. It is more than obvious.

The law prohibits public employees from striking, forcing them into what one union leader called “involuntary servitude” during the government shutdown.

Since the enactment of the Taft-Hartley Act in 1947, federal employees have been legally prohibited from striking. That law was intended to prevent public-sector workers from leveraging a work stoppage that could cripple the U.S. government or major industries in negotiations for better pay, working conditions, and benefits. But it likely did not envision a scenario where the government would require its employees to work without paying them, as is the case now.

“When you think about how hard you work, you’re waking up this morning, you’re trying to put food on the table, you’re going to work, many people go to jobs they don’t like, and then you look at the numbers,” the host said. “You’re spending about $80,000—a little over $80,000—for one of those illegals’ lifetime to keep them here in the U.S. You’re paying for them, and you’re working hard to pay for them,” she added.

Although Earhardt didn’t say where she got that exact figure, it appears to come from an article published by the Washington Examiner last February, which cited a report from the Federation for American Immigration Reform (FAIR). But the Fox News host appears to have either misread or misunderstood the reported data, as it was specifically talking about the cost of resettling refugees who come into the country through a legal route, not undocumented migrants.

Beyond erroneously conflating refugee resettlement with illegal immigration, Earhardt also failed to point out that immigrants—whether they enter the country legally or not—pay billions of taxes every year, just like American citizens, as Vox explained in detail in October. Documented immigrants, including refugees, pay the same taxes as any U.S. citizen.