Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., knows she has power and knows how to wield it. She can read the polls showing President Donald Trump's approval plummeting, and support also diving for using the shutdown to get his wall. She isn't giving an inch, at least in a way Trump finds meaningful.
Trump tried to bully his way into the State of the Union address, writing to Pelosi that he'd be prepared to deliver it next week. "It would be so very sad for our country if the State of the Union were not delivered on time, on schedule, and very importantly, on location!