President Trump announced Friday afternoon that he will sign a stop-gap spending bill to fund the government through February 15, ending the longest government shutdown in history, which has left some 800,000 federal workers without paychecks. Trump’s concession — the stop-gap measure will not provide the $5.7 billion in border-wall funding that he’d demanded, precipitating the shutdown in the first place — will allow a congressional committee with representatives of both parties time to negotiate a homeland-security-appropriations bill that addresses the thorny issue of border-wall funding, Trump said during remarks in the White House Rose Garden. Should the committee fail to develop an acceptable border-security bill, Trump implied he would declare a national emergency and unilaterally reallocate military funds for the wall’s construction.
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