Govt Shut Down Day 3: Waiting for a deal

(USAToday) As the partial government shutdown entered a third day on Monday President Donald Trump sought to cajole Democrats into a budget agreement that remained elusive at one point lamenting he was all alone waiting for a deal. With little progress on his demand for a $5 billion border wall and most lawmakers away for Christmas the president repeatedly took to Twitter to argue for the border funding. He also scheduled a meeting Monday afternoon with top Homeland Security officials. I am all alone (poor me) in the White House waiting for the Democrats to come back and make a deal on desperately needed Border Security the president posted on Twitter. At some point the Democrats not wanting to make a deal will cost our Country more money than the Border Wall we are all talking about. Markets slumped on a shortened Christmas Eve trading day as investors grappled with the shutdown and the lack of progress toward a solution. Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchins effort to calm investors appeared to backfire after he made an unprompted statement over the weekend that U.S. banks are healthy an assurance that seemed only to inject uncertainty on Wall Street.