The shutdown is now on since His Ass-Holeyness now opposes the part of the CR that extends CHIP…throwing another monkey wrench in the works…

talkingpointsmemo.com

On Thursday morning, President Trump torched that strategy with a single tweet, indicating that CHIP should not be attached to the short-term spending bill at all.

The declaration upends 11th-hour negotiations on Capitol Hill that were already teetering on the edge of collapse due both to Democratic opposition and internal Republican divisions.