The first days of the Department of Homeland Security shutdown offered no sign that the standoff will end soon.
Despite significant public tension around immigration enforcement, the lapse in funding for DHS isn’t generating much intensity.
Democrats and the White House are trading offers, but lawmakers remain scattered far from Washington, many of them abroad, suggesting no deal is imminent even as the single-agency shutdown moved into the working week Tuesday.
Both parties appear to believe they have the upper hand with voters, and many of the public shutdown effects are still negligible after the holiday weekend, encouraging them ...