This past Friday, President Donald Trump announced the end of the government shutdown that was started on December 22nd over a lack of financial backing (request for approximately $5 billion) for his highly-touted "Border Wall" as a solution to the crisis at the Southern Border. A full five weeks have passed since the initial occurrence, during which certain aspects of government (such as the Departments of Homeland Security, Justice, and the Environmental Protection Agency) have been ground to a halt by Trump's insistence that the Democrats cave in against his fear-mongering ideology.