A strong border doesn’t pay the rent. Republican sources tell me that although they don’t see an imminent solution to the shutdown — Trump said yesterday it could last for months or even years — the White House is likely to cave when 800,000 federal workers stop getting paid and the hardships become a staple of local news coverage across Trump country.

More than 80% of federal employees live and work outside the Washington metro area, per Federal News Network.

The N.Y. Times, in a new post called “What the Shutdown Would Look Like if It Happened in Other Industries,” points out that the 800,000 federal employees furloughed or working without pay constitute “more than double the number of people who work for Target” (350,000+ worldwide).