The impending end of Donald Trump’s break-in period is as good a time as any to see where he will go from here. The first 100 days are typically a honeymoon, during which the political knives remain sheathed. Not this time. Political back-stabbing, intra- and interparty, is rife. Democrats are finding time both to attack Trump and to blame each other for their stunning loss to a vulgar property developer who refuses to publish his tax returns. Republican Freedom Caucusers are finding time both to back-stab their speaker and to defy their president. And members of what is laughingly called the Trump team are dueling for access to a president who in the end trusts no one save his family, if them.

Here is what we know about the immediate future. Unless Trump can cut a deal by next Friday with Congress to fund the federal government until permanent financing can be agreed, he will be one of the few government employees showing up for work on his 100^th day in office (25 percent of which have been spent at Mar-a-Largo). Other toilers in the public interest will be on what will certainly prove to be paid vacations—days off do not translate into lost pay when you work for the government. Congressional leaders are reassuring the President that there will be no shut-down, and they might be right,