WASHINGTON _ Furloughed federal workers have displayed their unpaid bills at Mitch McConnell's Senate office in protest. House freshmen marched to his office Wednesday to urge a vote. And he's drawn the ire of Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, the newest star of the Democratic Party.
Yet through it all, the Senate majority leader has persisted and never wavered: The shutdown, he insists, is the Democrats' fault.
As Democrats look to turn McConnell, R-Ky., into the face of the longest government shutdown in U.S. history, they've erected billboards in Kentucky and raised money off his refusal to hold a Senate vote on House bills to re-open the government. The shutdown will enter its 27th day Thursday with no apparent end in sight.
