Jonathan Bernstein, Columnist

Why There Won’t Be a Government Shutdown, Probably

There’s no good political reason to go to the mat. But then there’s Trump.

July 30, 2018 at 6:06 PM UTC

Jonathan Bernstein is a Bloomberg Opinion columnist covering politics. A former professor of political science at the University of Texas at San Antonio, he wrote A Plain Blog About Politics.

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President Donald Trump is now threatening a government shutdown unless he gets funding for his border wall plus a wide array of other immigration changes:

He’s not going to get what he wants on immigration this fall. And while you never know with Trump, expect him to fold on the shutdown as well.