House and Senate Democrats are unified in opposing funding the wall. Instead, Democrats passed a stopgap bill to fund homeland security (but not Trump’s border wall) for just a few weeks, kicking a decision on the wall into February. They may well blame Republicans, especially because the president and the border wall are both unpopular. That’s what happened during the 2013 shutdown: Senate Republicans were more electorally sensitive to a damaged party brand name than were their House colleagues, whose immovability was supported by their solidly red districts. Democrats don’t seem in a hurry to negotiate, probably betting that the public will blame Republicans for the shutdown.

Source: Washington Post January 07, 2019 12:45 UTC