time to don my tin hat -
What if this shutdown is being done for that reason, to enable Russia, SA and/or Israel to take a deep dive at the voter data and even hacking into it, possibly changing it? That with stopping the prosecution of so many legal cases against orange assmouth would certainly be sufficient for him to want to keep the government shut down. Remember everything is always about him, he only invokes the base when needed to cover up what he wanted to do anyway, like with racism and now the shutdown.