The Republicans and Democrats have almost agreed to end the Shutdown — a situation where the budget is not passed and the government is not funded. Several aspects are important here.

1. This is the longest Shutdown in US history. This indicates the growing overall crisis in the USA.
2. The Shutdown was initially beneficial to Trump — to cut those government programs previously adopted by the Democrats. And Trump provoked the Shutdown.
3. But then the Shutdown began to be very disadvantageous to Trump because it started causing many problems for ordinary people.
4. The main problem — due to lack of funding for air traffic controllers and airports, 10% of flights were canceled. But there are also dozens and even hundreds of other various minor problems.
5. The main politically public reason for the Shutdown: Trump wants to cut funding for healthcare for the poor. And the Democratic Party is sharply against it.
6. The actual main reason: at first, Trump wanted to use the Shutdown to destroy programs adopted under Biden and Obama.
7. Then the Democratic Party wanted to use the Shutdown to reduce Trump’s popularity in the November elections in various states.
8. As a result, the Democratic Party won.
9. Trump’s ratings fell. Trump risks losing the majority in the Senate and the House of Representatives.
10. The Democrats achieved their goal and technically made concessions. Trump realized his problems were growing and also made concessions.
11. The Shutdown will apparently end now. But the growing dysfunctionality of the US government’s work will continue.

via S. Markov