Total waste of time!

Total waste of time. This could be solved in 15 minutes, but Mitch is punishing Trump for reneging on the earlier bipartisan bill that was passed overwhelming by Congress. Trump is floundering and nobody is listening except his base of birthers, flat-earthers, Pizzagate believers, Bengazhi hacks, and Hillary haters and, of course, those who believe Mexico will still pay for the wall or fence or barrier. It's entirely obvious at this point that the shutdown is simply a revenge motive on the part of the GOP. They lost the House and their reaction was like a mob style protection racket: punish the country for not voting their way. McConnell could have held votes on competing solutions when Congress was first seated, but waited so that Trump and the GOP could maximize the damage and pain.