The government shutdown fight may be burning quietly over this holiday week, but it still needs to end. President Trump’s lather, rinse, repeat routine of hoisting out border wall funding as an eleventh-hour demand over which to shut down the government is getting old, particularly for his base. In 2018 alone, the federal government has shut down three separate times, always due to an immigration negotiation spurred by Trump. The country blames the president.

Trump can’t afford to go into the 2020 election without a cent of real funding for a physical barrier along the southern border. With Democrats taking over the House and mobilized to resist Trump at all costs, President Dealmaker needs to finally sit Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., at the table and make one.