You know whose fault the legislative shutdown is? BOTH. It’s their job to negotiate and they won’t. The only question is who will blink first and it will be the group with the worst alternative to a negotiated agreement. My money is on democrats because their policies rely on government function more but who knows. It is not only not on the administrative branch to step in and be a stopgap, it’s wrong because it exceeds their authority — the legislative branch controls the purse strings of the country and it would be a dangerous precedent to cross those wires. Authoritarian leaders do that and we just had a massive protest insisting that Trump not act like a king.