Government Shutdown

[hazard]

The more the Democrats have to push the bills from the House to the Senate to reopen the government, the worse it will end up for the Republicans.

I've always gotten the impression that the Republicans had a slight(ish) edge when it comes to how much of the government workforce votes for them, but with this? This is going massively impact their popularity, especially since the only ones that appear to be actively trying to push for a reopening of the government is the Democrats. I mean, it's not as if the Senate is pushing bills to the House asking for them to vote on them to reopen the government, right?

And if this keeps going on, for more than a month or so, I would not be surprised for both federal (ex-)employees and the people whose livelihood depended on them to start making noise about things like recall elections and start making petitions for them.

And McConnell's up for reelection in 2020. If there's a lot of federal employees in the districts he gets elected in, the longer this lasts the worse it will end up for him. People care about their money quite a lot.