Once again, America’s federal government is heading for an end-of-year shutdown. The deadline for a deal is midnight tonight—but however the budgetary chaos ends, it is a sign that Donald Trump will not find governing as easy as he may think, despite his party’s control of both houses of the next Congress. 

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