For Democrats, the shutdown fight marks a line in the sand born from months of frustration with their inability to stop Trump’s norm-busting leadership. “But you’re hearing it from all wings of the Democratic Party: The fight is the victory. Trump blames ‘radical left’The fight is already ugly as Trump uses his presidential bully pulpit — and taxpayer-funded government resources — to cast blame on the Democrats. More than 147,000 federal workers live in Virginia, second only to California, according to data compiled last year by the Congressional Research Service. During the 35-day partial shutdown in Trump’s first term, 340,000 of the 800,000 federal workers at affected agencies were furloughed.