"I have no idea how this ends. I really don’t."

Trump aides realize the situation could slip away from them politically as the impact is felt by taxpayers and federal workers across America.

So the urgency is in putting pressure on Dems, and trying to make them own a “crisis” at the border.

“I have no idea how this ends. I really don’t,” a senior White House official said…

Be smart, from a well-wired Republican: “Interestingly, Ds are doing exactly what Rs did during the Obamacare shutdown — trying to open popular pieces one at a time.”

“I do not understand the Trump strategy: Why not let them open everything but Homeland? Don’t they want this fight to be about the wall and not parks?”