Donald Trump was supposed to be in Palm Beach on Saturday celebrating the first anniversary of his Inauguration with another round of golf and a big party for donors at his Mar-a-Lago resort. Instead, he’s still in Washington, and parts of the federal government, at least for now, have shut down.

After a day of back and forth on Friday, the decisive vote in the Senate was taken after 10 P.M. It was on a motion to go to a vote on a Republican spending bill that would have kept the government open for another month. Needing sixty votes to prevail, the Republicans only got fifty, with four of their own members voting against the party line. (The dissidents were Jeff Flake, Lindsey Graham, Mike Lee, and Rand Paul. The ailing John McCain was absent.)

That vote put paid to the Republican spending bill, but it wasn’t quite the end of things. On the Senate floor during the 11 P.M. hour, senators from both parties gathered in groups, speaking vociferously, which created speculation that there might be some last-minute deal in the making. At one point, the two party leaders, Mitch McConnell and Chuck Schumer, disappeared into the Senate cloakroom together for a chat. By then, though, it was too late to avert a shutdown before the midnight deadline, and one went into effect while the senators were still talking.

The White House spokeswoman, Sarah Huckabee Sanders, immediately put out a statement that included the alliterative framing Republicans had been using for days, but also included some uniquely Trumpian language. “Senate Democrats own the Schumer Shutdown,” it said. “We will not negotiate the status of unlawful immigrants while Democrats hold our lawful citizens hostage over their reckless demands. This is the behavior of obstructionist losers, not legislators.” McConnell, in a speech on the Senate floor shortly after midnight, read out some of the White House statement and called the vote “a cynical decision by Senate Democrats to shove aside millions of Americans for the sake of irresponsible political gains.”

Schumer, in his response to McConnell, sought to place the blame for what had just happened squarely on the President. This line had been telegraphed previously, too, but the Democratic leader, Schumer, had a new twist to offer, in the form of an account of his ninety-minute meeting with Trump, who fashions himself as the great dealmaker. During that meeting, Schumer said, he outlined a possible deal in which the Democrats would agree to finance Trump’s wall across the Mexican border as part of a package that also included extending legal protections for the Dreamers, funding the CHIP health-care program, and boosting the budget for military and domestic spending. The meeting had gone well, Schumer said, and after leaving it had he had thought the sides might be able to agree to fund the government for a short period, during which they would hash out the details of an agreement. But even though Trump had seemed to be open to this idea, Schumer said the President “did not press his party in Congress to accept it.”

Schumer could perhaps have left it there, but he was only working up to his punchline: “What happened to the President who asked us to come out with a deal and promised he’d take heat for it? What happened to that President? He backed off at the first sign of pressure,” Schumer said. “The same chaos, the same disarray, the same division and discord on the Republican side that’s been in the background of these negotiations for months unfortunately appears endemic.” That was a none-too-subtle reference to the televised meeting in the Oval Office a couple of weeks ago, during which Trump had said he would accept any bipartisan deal that the other people in the room came up with. Schumer went on, “Now all of this problem is because Republican leadership can’t get to yes, because President Trump refuses to. Mr. President, President Trump, if you are listening, I am urging you: please take yes for an answer.” The “blame should crash entirely” on the President’s shoulders, he added.

In addition to partaking in the blame game, the two leaders left the door at least half open to a fairly rapid resolution of the dispute. Schumer said that the President and the four congressional leaders should sit down immediately and try to reach an agreement. McConnell said that he would propose another temporary spending bill, which would expire on February 8th, a week earlier than the expiration date in the bill that the Senate hadn’t gotten to vote on. That seemed to be at least potentially significant, because there were also unconfirmed reports that, during the final discussions, the Democrats had proposed a temporary spending patch that would expire on January 29th, the day before the State of the Union. In this area, at least, the two sides appeared to be getting to within hailing distance of each other.

But, of course, there are more substantive issues than timing. Some Democrats simply don’t believe that the Republicans are genuinely willing to make an agreement to protect the Dreamers. That’s a big reason they are insisting on getting one nailed down now, when, at least in their estimation, Trump’s reversals and “shithole” comments have given them maximum leverage. Some Republicans, on the other hand, appear to believe that they will benefit politically from an extended shutdown, because the public will hold the Democrats responsible.

That could happen. But Americans could also accept Schumer’s argument that the shutdown is just another example of the chaos Trump has unleashed. A CNN poll that was released on Friday contained figures to encourage and worry both sides. Asked whom they would hold primarily responsible for a shutdown, forty-seven per cent of respondents said Trump or the Republicans, and only thirty-one per cent said the Democrats. Score one for Team Blue. But fifty-six per cent of respondents said that preventing a shutdown was a bigger priority now than reaching a deal on the Dreamers—supporting Team Red’s line—and only thirty-four per cent gave the opposite answer.

Much will depend on what happens in the next few days, and, especially, on how Trump behaves. On Friday, the Daily Beast reported that he was distinctly nonplussed at the prospect of staying in Washington and missing his anniversary party down in Florida. (The story didn’t say who at the White House, if anybody, had explained to the President that the job of President occasionally involves staying in town and working weekends.) Will Trump stand by his initial refusal, in the statement Sanders put out, even to negotiate with the Democrats? Or will Schumer’s taunts goad him into action? We’ll soon find out.