One powerful federal employee union now points a finger at Democrats as the federal shutdown drags on. Is Sen. Jacky Rosen, who ran for re-election last year ensuring Nevadans she was a force for bipartisanship, listening?
This week, the head of the American Federation of Government Employees, which typically contributes more than $2 million per election cycle to Democratic candidates, called for an end to the impasse, which will soon enter its fifth week. ”It’s time to pass a clean resolution and end this shutdown today,” Everett Kelley, the union’s president, told The Wall Street Journal.
His plea aligns the union with Senate Republicans, who have attempted to do precisely that 13 times only to be stymied by minority Democrats such as Sen. Rosen. They have ensured that the closure endu

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