We’re rapidly heading toward the longest government shutdown in history. It’s no surprise that the Republican Party has congressional majorities and the White House, again, for the second lengthy federal shutdown in the past six years.

The last shutdown ran 35 days. Though Democrats won majorities in the U.S. House in the November 2018 midterm elections, Republicans controlled both chambers during the 115th Congress before the Democrats were seated on Jan. 3, 2019, and expanded their control of the U.S. Senate in those midterms.

The GOP caused that shutdown over nonsensical border wall funding.

The current ongoing shutdown is a direct result of the refusal of congressional Republicans, including all four members of West Virginia’s congressional delegation, to extend or make permanent Af

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