The American Federation of Government Employees called on Democrats to advance a continuing resolution that the GOP has been trying to pass since the government shutdown began 28 days ago.

Just three Democrats have voted in favor of the resolution across 12 attempts to push it through Congress - despite the party voting for a similar bill on 13 occasions under President Biden.  

The continuing resolution would have been a stopgap approach to avoiding the widespread crisis that a shutdown has caused, allowing funding to continue until November 21 while negotiations continued.

But so far, Democrats have refused to compromise without a guarantee that parts of the Affordable Care Act would be extended. 

The left-leaning union's President Everett Kelley implored the Democrats to accept a solution to prevent millions of Americans from going hungry and working for free.

'Both political parties have made their point, and still there is no clear end in sight,' Kelley said.

'Congress pushed our nation into the fourth week of a full government shutdown – an avoidable crisis that is harming families, communities, and the very institutions that hold our country together.'

Kelley called on Congress 'to pass a clean continuing resolution and end this shutdown today. No half measures, and no gamesmanship. Put every single federal worker back on the job with full back pay — today.' 

Strategists and pollsters in both parties have warned the shutdown is a liability for both sides, but so far more Americans are placing the blame on Republicans, given they are the party in power.

'What we're seeing primarily is disgust with the system as a whole and a pox on both your houses,' Republican pollster Whit Ayres told The Hill.

'Most Americans can't understand why the federal government can't function effectively enough to pass a budget and keep the government open.'

According to a Reuters/Ispos poll with 4,385 respondents, 50 percent blamed Republicans more while 43 percent said the shutdown was primarily Democrats' fault. 

John Fetterman, one of only three Democrats who has voted in favor of the continuing resolution during the past 12 attempts to push it through, said Kelley and the AFGE union were 'firmly on the right side of this and we should absolutely listen.'

'Our servicemembers, federal workers, and Capitol Police are hurting. It's one of many reasons why I've continuously voted to open our government,' the Pennsylvania senator wrote on X. 

'We need to end this chaos.'