I think you are right. He will declare an emergency, use the military to build a wall for the safety and security of the country, and then congress can pass the budget and stop the shutdown because the wall is off the table.
GOD I hope so!!!!
The military won’t build this wall.
This is a trick by Trump to open the government.
He declares an emergency.
Opens government.
Says he opened government (a win) and pushed forward with the wall (a win).
The wall will be tied up in courts for years. It won’t happen.
Trump wins though because he will have opened the government and he can tell everyone he did his best.
He knows it isn’t happening. At this point, he is trying to find a way to save face and open the gov.