McConnell spends two days hiding from new demands to end shutdown
Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) has spent two days hiding from a group of determined freshman House Democrats trying to meet with him in hopes of ending the Trump shutdown.
The effort, spearheaded by Rep. Katie Hill (D-CA), began yesterday with a group of more than a dozen freshman House members walking across the Capitol to seek a meeting with McConnell.
“We have, since we have gotten here, been voting over and over again to take steps to reopen government, (which is) exactly what the American people asked us to do,” Hill said on the first day McConnell hid from her and her colleagues. “Mitch McConnell refuses to take any of those to a vote.”
In December, Trump threw a tantrum demanding $5 billion for a wall along the U.S.-Mexico border. In a televised meeting with Democratic leaders, Trump said he would be “proud” to own a shutdown if Democrats refused to pay his ransom. On the first day of the new Congress, Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) led the new Democratic majority in passing bills to end the Trump shutdown, but without funding for a wall.
McConnell, in a complete abdication of his constitutional duties, refused to even bring up House-passed funding bills for a vote. He went so far as to say such a vote is “absolutely pointless.”
While McConnell has been trying to keep a low profile during the shutdown, his refusal to lift a finger to help end it has earned him the ire of newspapers across the country, including one in his home state of Kentucky.
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I want them to drag him to the floor by his collar and MAKE him call the vote! 
McConnell is probably in Russia being counseled by his boss, Vladamir Putin! 
Next to Trump, there is one person I want to see go down hard and that is Mitch. I want to see him cry and whimper.
