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As of midnight tonight, the current partial government shutdown will be the longest in U. S. history.

At the heart of it is a fight over whether to fund a wall along the U. S. -Mexico border.

Democrats are refusing, and President Trump is refusing to reopen the government until they do.

He's been talking about declaring a national emergency to go around Congress and fund the wall.

But today, Trump took his foot off the gas on that one.

Now, the easy solution is for me to call a national emergency.

I could do that very quickly. I have the absolute right to do it.

But I'm not going to do it so fast because this is something Congress should do.

And we're waiting for the Democrats to vote. They should come back and vote.

NPR White House correspondent Tamara Keith was in the room for that. She joins us now. Hey there, Tam.