Republican headaches around the possible impending shutdown are legion: President Donald Trump’s obstinance on his $5 billion wall, his televised pronouncement that Republicans would own the shutdown and the utter lack of will for Democrats to concede an inch of their better positioning.

California changed its primary date to early March in 2017 — now, as Democrats rev up their campaigns, observers will likely see the new ways that change will force them to mold their campaigns.

A thorough shellacking for Republicans in Pennsylvania this year has left President Donald Trump’s allies worried about his 2020 prospects in the state, which he won by less than one percentage point in 2016.

President Donald Trump took to Twitter Monday, claiming with creative spelling that “boarder security” without his $5 billion wall would actually cost the country more money.

Anytime you hear a Democrat saying that you can have good Boarder Security without a Wall, write them off as just another politician following the party line. Time for us to save billions of dollars a year and have, at the same time, far greater safety and control!

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) December 17, 2018

In a possibly symbolic move, House Democrats are planning a slate of gun control measures which will likely meet their demise in the Republican-controlled Senate, according to a Monday Politico report.

Sen. Chris Coons (D-DE) sounded resigned Monday morning, conceding that his bill to protect Special Counsel Robert Mueller, co-championed with Sen. Jeff Flake (R-AZ), will be blocked by Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) again this week.

Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) insisted Sunday that despite President Donald Trump’s “temper tantrum,” he is “not going to get the wall in any form.”

Fox News contributor Andrew McCarthy took issue with President Donald Trump’s word choice this weekend when he called his former fixer, Michael Cohen, a “rat.”

The White House has been pushing Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke to quit for weeks, finally telling him he had until the end of the year to leave or be fired, according to a Saturday Washington Post report. 

House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) set Twitter ablaze last week with her fiery high-necked coat, donned minutes after delivering a political smackdown on President Donald Trump in a televised Oval Office debate.