Trump may be spoiling for a shutdown fight, but it could spell disaster in 2018

The White House and Congress reached a deal last week to keep the government open — at least until this fall.
But in reality, the compromise may well have just kicked the can down the road until September, when both sides may be spoiling for a fight amid the specter of a government shutdown.
The spending bill didn’t give President Trump or congressional Republicans and Democrats everything they wanted. The GOP got more defense spending, while some agencies whose funding the White Hou