Trump: Taking lessons from Nixon

The recent US government shutdown is now officially the longest in the country’s history, having lasted over 35 days in total. Over 800,000 government employees were furloughed or had to work without pay, while its impact on the US economy was even more disastrous, with many experts predicting that the shutdown cost over $10 billion, and that the economy would take years to recover from these great losses.

This situation was caused due to the heightening discord between the Democratic and Republican parties, particularly over the issue of illegal immigration and President Trump’s insistence on building a wall along the US-Mexico border. Once the government shutdown was called off, it was implied that the two parties had come to some form of agreement over the issue, and that the differences separating the two sides would be a thing of the past. However, it soon became clear that the solution to this issue would not be as simple as that.

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