If anyone wins, let’s hope it’s the majority of Americans who want nothing to do with border walls or shutdowns.

As of midnight on Friday, major parts of the U.S. government are closed.

Congress gave themselves a deadline of Friday, December 21 to pass legislation funding roughly one quarter of the federal government for the rest of the 2019 fiscal year.

President Trump has said that he will veto any bill that doesn’t give him the $5 billion he has demanded for his border wall.

A national security commission calls for annual increases of 3-5% in the Department of Defense budget—that could result in military spending of $972 trillion in 2024. But the Pentagon just failed its first-ever audit. If you don’t know where $700 billion is going, why would you know where $1 trillion is going?

This week the House majority released their budget blueprint for fiscal year 2019, which begins October 1.

Out of twelve major federal spending categories, only the military and veteran's benefits would be spared from the Trump cuts. 

The resulting federal discretinary budgets invests 54% of the federal discretionary budget in the miltiary and nuclear weapons. 

It's easy to see what comes next: claiming pressure from the deepening debt that they themselves created, members of Congress will want massive cuts to programs that help the poor and middle class.

If President Trump has shown us anything with this budget, it’s that he will seek to increase military spending, even if he doesn’t know why he’s doing it.