reihan salam is the executive editor at the national review and a policy fellow.ovich is with "new york times magazine." the government needs funding or it will be shutdown. the omb director at the white house says the reach a deal, they will give democrats $1 for obamacare funding if they get $1 for the president's border wall, which democrats don't want to fund. there that solve it? >> it got a pretty quick rejection from senate minority leader chuck schumer. he said it's a non-starter. they're not going to negotiate that. but it's emblematic of two things. one, the president really wants a victory before the 100-day mark. particularly on some of his most significant campaign promises, like the border wall. the second thing is they need democrats on board if they're going to avoid a shutdown, which the white house would like to do. so that's part of the reason why we've seen them leave open the possibility of not digging in on the border wall funding. that's also why we've seen them try to make a last-minute reach at taxes or health care, two things that on a go