<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body dir="auto"><div><h1 class="title" style="box-sizing: border-box; text-rendering: optimizeLegibility; border: 0px; font-family: "Mercury Display A", "Mercury Display B"; font-size: 57.99px; margin: 0px 0px 20px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); line-height: 61.04px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;">“An Offer From the Oval Office to Open the Federal Government”</h1><div class="byline" style="box-sizing: border-box; border: 0px; font-family: "Mercury Display A", "Mercury Display B"; font-size: 16px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; caret-color: rgb(128, 128, 128); color: rgb(128, 128, 128); -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;"><h2 class="author_name" style="box-sizing: border-box; text-rendering: optimizeLegibility; border: 0px; font-size: 29.69px; font-style: italic; font-weight: 400; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(163, 158, 152); line-height: 1.4; float: left; width: 591.59375px; margin: 0px !important;">By <a class="author" href="https://www.thenation.com/authors/calvin-trillin/" style="box-sizing: border-box; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(163, 158, 152); text-decoration: none; line-height: 20px; opacity: 1; outline: 0px !important;">Calvin Trillin</a></h2></div></div><div><br></div><div><div>The government opens, concluding this brawl. </div><div>The fate of the Dreamers is tied to The Wall.</div><div>This offer by Trump is that he would arrange</div><div>What simply amounts to a hostage exchange.</div><div>The federal workers, about whom we’ve read,</div><div>Are freed, and the Dreamers are taken instead.</div></div><div><br></div>———————————————<br><br><div dir="ltr"><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Seeya 'round town, Moscow, because . . .</span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">"Moscow Cares" (the most fun you can have with your pants on)</span></div><div><a href="http://www.moscowcares.com/" style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><font color="#000000">http://www.MoscowCares.com</font></a></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"> </span></div><div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Tom Hansen</span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Moscow, Idaho</span></div></div><div> </div></div></body></html>