Bright Ideas

The government of the United States opened up last week (for three more weeks) to solve the problem of border security and the President’s preference for a border wall. Federal employees should get paid.

The government had been shut down for over a month. Why? Because the Democratic controlled House of Representatives won’t give the President a border wall, a wall along the border with Mexico. That border is long and the wall not feasible in certain areas.

So the President closed federal offices. We have one of those in Ekalaka, the FSA, Farm Service Agency. Five people work in that office and...