Michael Gold

And I would say that none of those factors are more complicated than the president himself, because ultimately you need President Trump to buy into any deal.

The Senate's not going to want to move if the White House isn't okay with it.

And frankly, any deal the Senate reaches also has to be passed by the House, where Republicans have a very, very narrow majority and where the president's arm twisting, essentially, has been really necessary to get bills like this across the finish line.

So on the one hand, yes, it's feeling positive.

There seems to be a lot of energy here.

Everyone feels really good.

On the other hand, we've seen negotiations fall apart for any number of reasons here.

I've been here a year and it's happened countless times.

So I don't want to predict soon or not soon.

But it's hard to imagine that Congress is going to see continued chaos at airports, longer lines, people waiting five hours and missing their flights.

It's hard to imagine they're going to look around and want to be the ones who are holding the bag for the complete collapse of American air travel.

Oh, Michael, as always, thank you very much.

Anytime, Michael.

That's right, Michael.

At this point, it looks like at 12.01 a.m.

on Saturday morning, the Department of Homeland Security is going to shut down.

And it's the only government department that we expect will shut down this time.

A single agency shutdown.

A one agency shutdown.

And that department is about 4% of U.S.