I found a Time article from Friday.

I think it gets right to the biggest point of what McConnell is doing.

I think I made a comment the other day saying I thought this is what he is doing.

I know we are all concerned about Russia and is Mitch selling us out. I don’t think that is clear, but one thing is always clear about McConnell and that is POLITICS.

I’m going to quote what to me are the main two paragraphs from the story. The story is short so you might want to check it out.

TIME - How Mitch McConnell Is Working Behind the Scenes to End the Shutdown

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“I think the way out of this has been apparent for several weeks,” he said Thursday. “It requires an agreement between a Democratic House, the Democrats in the Senate and the President.” Notably absent? The Republican majority in the Senate, which cannot pass anything of substance without at least 60 votes to clear a procedural hurdle. (Trump has suggested McConnell throw out the rules requiring that 60-vote requirement; McConnell has dismissed that idea.)

Still, McConnell recognizes things are getting bad. Personally, he is indifferent to the necessity of the wall, which Trump promised during the campaign, but he recognizes the politics of it can be helpful for firing up the GOP’s hardline base. In 2020, McConnell’s fellow Republicans will be defending 22 seats, and many of them are in states that may prove tricky, like Arizona and Colorado.

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