The Bully Cried - and lost 1/2 of his playmates

The 35-day partial shutdown ended after Trump capitulated to Nancy Pelosi without the border wall funds he had demanded.

The shutdown officially ended with Trump’s signature.

Trump reiterated threats that he could bypass Congress and fund construction of the wall by declaring a national emergency. WHATEVER!

And in a tweet on Friday night he said, “This was in no way a concession.” (would you believe...)

Trump refused to end the impasse until he received $5.7 billion for a border wall. Ultimately, Trump folded and agreed to reopen the government in exchange for three weeks of bipartisan negotiations.

The shutdown “never should have happened,” Republican Senator Lisa Murkowski of Alaska said on the Senate floor before the vote. “We cannot mess with people’s lives this way.”

Federal departments and agencies will take time to return to capacity.

Reports on gross domestic product, consumer spending, housing and trade will be released, as the Commerce Department restarts the process of collecting, analyzing and releasing the data over the next month or so.

At the Interior Department, which oversees grazing, drilling and parks on the nation’s public lands, some functions can be resumed, said spokeswoman Faith Vander Voort, though employees will spend some time working through the backlogs that accumulated during the shutdown.