Michael Barbaro

So if you combine that with...

The election results on Tuesday.

And like you said, this view that democratic resistance is good for the party, if you put all those things together and layer in one more thing, President Trump himself said on election night that the shutdown is why Democrats did well.

If those things were all in the air, what incentive do the Democrats have to end the shutdown?

The shutdown's been working.

And the shutdown's about affordability on some level, which is health care.

So just to wrap this all up.

friends, everything we're talking about here points to the success of an anti-Trump message in this moment.

And the question, of course, is, is Trump going to really change in response to that?

Is he going to be more focused on the economy?

Is he going to be talking about affordability?

Is he going to be ratcheting back some of the more divisive elements of his agenda?

Or is he going to remain exactly as he has and stay focused on international diplomacy, mass deportations, White House renovations from the East Wing to a bathroom off the Lincoln Bedroom, now clad in statuary marble?

Is this, Tyler, Julie, I'm curious what you're thinking, Lisa, too, going to potentially, if it really is the worst week of the second term, maybe going to make the president rethink some of this stuff and change?

On Thursday night, Trump faced a new setback.

A federal judge ordered the administration to fund food stamps in full for about 42 million low-income Americans during the shutdown, something the president has repeatedly resisted.

In his ruling, the judge criticized the White House for attempting to delay such payments, writing, "...this should never happen in America."

the Justice Department almost immediately told the court that it planned to appeal the ruling.

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