Trump and Johnson weigh the pros and cons of a shutdown

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

70% : His challenge: Find a path that can keep Trump happy, placate House conservatives, win the support of a substantial number of House Democrats and pass muster with the Democratic-controlled Senate and White House -- all while allowing Johnson to keep his gavel come January.
50% : But as Trump says, we'll see what happens.
46% : There are political implications to that.
43% : Behind that thinking is a fear that Democrats are so eager to trip up Trump, that when the debt ceiling next needs to be raised, they'll demand the GOP make politically impossible concessions.
40% : Democrats didn't get protections for Dreamers during the shutdown fight they stoked when Trump was in office, either.
38% : Which brings us to a final point: Even if Trump manages to land a debt ceiling hike, a shutdown over this issue all but guarantees that his first big legislative achievement is going to be increasing the nation's borrowing limit when we're already more than $35 trillion in debt -- not exactly a way to get Republicans excited.
32% : Back then, Johnson presented Trump with polling showing that Republicans in swing districts would pay the price politically -- even using numbers from a Trump pollster to underline his point.
32% : Trump didn't get a dollar for his wall during the 35-day shutdown in 2018-2019, and he paid a political price for it.
21% : Right or wrong, there also seems to be a belief among some people close to Trump that some sort of debt ceiling disaster is around the corner and thus this needs to be dealt with now.
19% : Still, it's quite a turn from just a few months ago, when Johnson almost single-handedly talked Trump off the shutdown ledge.
15% : Trump himself heightened his demand early Friday morning: "Congress must get rid of, or extend out to, perhaps, 2029, the ridiculous Debt Ceiling.
13% : Trump picked the fight, and it was Trump -- well, him and Elon Musk -- who sank the bipartisan deal.
9% : But Johnson and Trump have been seriously contemplating whether it's best to simply allow a shutdown to happen.

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