That is, after all, what D.C. does best: acting when its “leaders” have been driven into a corner and all other options available to them have been exhausted. Once again, it’s the prospect of yet another partial government shutdown spurring Capitol Hill and the White House into motion. ***And get this: Just getting Trump & Friends to sit down together and talk is all D.C. has been able to accomplish to date! The last few times Congress has done the “Shutdown Shuffle,” Democrats came to the rescue at the last minute and saved the GOP leadership’s bacon by passing a continuing resolution. Which is why Schumer and Jeffries are digging in their heels on issues they knew perfectly well Republicans refuse to budge on.