As heds go, I’m not sure I’ve ever seen a “no-shit lie.”

GOP leaders are on the record saying they want a shutdown. Trump wants to help out the billionaires by creating a shitton of depressed assets for pennies on the dollar.

And if you follow the money, major Democratic donors could also make a decent chunk of change.

I’m sure we’ll get some Sturm and Drang out of it, but that’ll be it. All Dems can do is threaten Trump with the briar patch.

Democrats and Republicans are gearing up for a crunch White House meeting with Donald Trump in an 11th-hour bid to avert a potentially damaging federal government shutdown.

Monday’s gathering is aimed at reaching an agreement over funding the government and largely hinges on Democrat demands for an extension of funding subsidies for health insurance under the Affordable Care Act, also known as Obamacare, beyond the end of the year, when they are due to expire.

Hakeem Jeffries, the Democrat leader in the House of Representatives, and Chuck Schumer, the party’s leader in the Senate, will meet Trump along with their Republican counterparts, Mike Johnson, the House speaker, and John Thune, the Senate majority leader, for talks that are expected to be tense if not confrontational.

But entirely theatrical!