<![CDATA[After 43 days, you can whiz on the fire and call in the dogs, because the shutdown has been officially shut down. At 10:39pm Wednesday night, surrounded at the Resolute Desk in the Oval Office by dozens of Republican legislators, President Donald Trump signed the federal government into existence again. As our friend Guy Benson aptly noted, the irony behind who Democrats and their Resistance media allies tried to blame for the shutdown for six weeks versus the reality of the inevitable reopening couldn't have been more stark. ]]>