Remember, last Friday, when Donald Trump announced his decision to end the longest government shutdown in U.S. history, on account of the havoc it was wreaking across the country, furloughing hundreds of thousands of federal workers, creating a nightmare at dozens of airports, and slowing down the economy each day it dragged on? Well, the president has thought about it, and he’s decided he just might close the government again come February 15.

In an interview on Sunday, Trump told The Wall Street Journal that he puts the chances of the 17 lawmakers tasked with striking a deal before temporary funding lapses at “less than 50-50.” Should Democrats offer him anything under $5.7 billion to construct a wall the majority of the country doesn’t want, and which Nancy Pelosi has consistently rejected, he would have little choice but to veto it, describing another potential shutdown as “certainly an option.”

Alarmingly, it’s not just Baby Huey who’s threatening to grind the country to a halt for a second time in two months; the so-called adults in the room are getting in on the action, too. In an interview with CBS’s Face the Nation, acting Chief of Staff Mick Mulvaney said another shutdown is a strong possibility. Worse, should the president decide not to go two-for-two on government closures, there’s a growing chance he’ll declare a state of emergency to get his way. “The president’s commitment is to defend the nation, and he will do it either with or without Congress,” Mulvaney told Fox News Sunday. According to The Washington Post, Trump reportedly believes such a scenario “may be his best option,” and that reopening the government on Friday, per a White House official, was “clearing the deck” for executive action rather than folding on the wall. Some Republicans, like Marco Rubio, have cautioned Trump against such a move, arguing that it would set a horrible precedent. But apparently, others are privately egging Trump on:

. . . other Republicans said the G.O.P. appetite for using emergency powers was stronger than the remarks of lawmakers on television suggested because of the expectation that the party’s base would applaud Trump for being bold.