The wall is shutdown because the Democrats control the house and they are rejecting funding of a wall, although so far the shutdown has costed around 5B and it has reduced economic growth by around 0.65%. If they give up, Trump will win, they don't care about government workers not getting paid, Pelosi even wanted to fly to Afghanistan and other countries for a week while the shutdown is happening, and Trump rejected her flight and said she needed to be here during the shutdown.
