When will Republicans like Mitch McConnell go for country over party, forget Trump's wall and reopen the government?

Even though Trump is responsible for the initial shutdown. Mitch continues to keep it down since he blocked Senate Democrats' move to reopen parts of the government last week. He is after all the senate majority leader and could end this shutdown today.

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MistyCee

I'm not a big fan, but I don't think Mitch can single handedly end the shutdown with Trump still ready to veto anything brought to him without a wall.

He could stop protecting Trump and force him to use the veto, of course, but I can actually see how he might think that that could be worse for the Country then standing with Trump, given Trump's judgment and motivations.