Dilbert creator Scott Adams speculates that the shutdown situation might be over something a lot bigger:

“Maybe, just maybe, there’s something else going on that we don’t know about: Something big. And it might be something big that the President just needs to deal with, and he doesn’t need the state of the union stuff getting in the way at the moment. So I’m speculating that there might be some big news coming.”

Starts talking about it around 9:45 ->

https://www.pscp.tv/w/bxnnX3R3LTEwNjM1Mzk2ODIwOTU2MzY0ODF8MVlwS2tWbVhwTkJ4am38lTJu6TomZEiQK_JNj5uqJASbzmnuTvbcPAaeddeO?t=9m53s