CNN

Out-of-office messages blaming Democrats for shutdown sent on behalf of some federal workers without their consent

Multiple furloughed workers from the Department of Education had out-of-office messages blaming Democrats for the government shutdown automatically sent from their email accounts without their consent ...
Wired

Government Workers Say Their Out-of-Office Replies Were Forcibly Changed to Blame Democrats for Shutdown

On Wednesday, the first day of the US government shutdown, employees at the Department of Education (DOE) set their automatic out-of-office email responses to inform recipients that they would be ...
ABC News

Furloughed federal workers pushed to make partisan out-of-office replies: Sources

OMB encouraged federal employees to blame "Democrat Senators" for the shutdown. The Office of Management and Budget (OMB) encouraged federal employees across the government -- including at the ...
NPR

Judge says Education Dept. partisan out-of-office emails violated First Amendment

A federal judge ruled that the Trump administration violated the First Amendment rights of Education Department employees when it replaced their personalized out-of-office e-mail notifications with ...
Education Week

Ed. Dept. Out-of-Office Emails Changed to Blame Democrats for Shutdown, Staff Say

Staff furloughed from the U.S. Department of Education say their out-of-office emails blaming Democratic senators for the federal government shutdown were set up without their permission—and they ...
OPB

Judge says Education Dept. partisan out-of-office emails violated First Amendment

The Washington headquarters of the Department of Education on March 12. A federal judge ruled that the Trump administration violated the First Amendment rights of Education Department employees when ...