Democrats are afraid of ending the federal government shutdown because they are "terrified of getting the guillotine" from their left-wing base, according to a report. Senate Democrats "are going to get hammered" if they support a short-term, Republican-led House bill to end the government shutdown, according to an anonymous Democratic senator who spoke with The Hill . Centrist Democrats would have opened the government "yesterday," the senator said, but fear career-ending backlash from their