WASHINGTON — Sen. John Fetterman slammed his fellow Democrats Wednesday for prolonging the government shutdown for 36 days — making it the longest in US history — even as millions of Americans lose their food stamp benefits or work without pay in their federal posts due to a “s—-y political game.”

Fetterman, one of three Democrat or Dem-leaning senators — along with Catherine Cortez Masto (D-Nev.) and Angus King (I-Maine) — consistently voting with Republicans to end the shutdown, told The Post that the standoff “should have never started.”

“People like to celebrate about breaking a new record, but this is a terrible record and that’s why I refuse to ever be a part of it,” the 56-year-old Pennsylvania Democrat said.

“And here we are — what is it, like three weeks out from Thanksgivi

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