shutdowns, was a plan after the shutdown? if they were to agree to a short-term continuing resolution to move this to january, as you described, the hand gets so much weaker. so i think this is an opening to get as much as you can but i do not think beyond the 1.6 billion, the policy trade-off republicans want to make to get more money. i don t think they re very good if there even possible. james as i read the democrats and say you want your 5 billion, we will give it to you but here is the risk, a, b, c, d. protection from robert mueller. policy concessions on trade and other things. is it worth the trade? i don t know if you have to make that trade. i think as you said the top, the present is in a strong position for the military is funded so the constituency that might be against the shutdown is not really relevant here. you basically have a lot of left-leaning people who work in the domestic agencies who want to get paid, republicans historically have not done well in these ba