So neither side will budge, as innocents suffer. Just effing craptastic. How did we get to this? Sure would like to have the full $25 billion in exchange for the Dreamers, which if I recall was what the deal was last year before Trump torpedoed it.
Trump can maintain his stance only so long as Mitch McConnell lets him. McConnell's refusal to consider House spending bills that Trump won't sign has held so far, but as airports experience nightmare lines and other tangible impacts of the shutdown are felt, can that stance hold?
The best way forward is to get another Wall-for-DACA deal on the table, only this time it won't come with as much funding as the deal last year would have secured. And, of course, Trump's base will yell and scream about the horrors of "amnesty" for folks brought to this country as kids. At some point Trump is going to have to do something he's loathe to do - tell his base that they're going to have to settle.