By Nolan D. McCaskill

WASHINGTON (Reuters) -Americans who visited the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development’s website Tuesday were greeted with an unusual message blaming Democrats for an impending government shutdown.

“The Radical Left are going to shut down the government and inflict massive pain on the American people unless they get their $1.5 trillion wish list of demands,” a pop-up on HUD.gov reads. “The Trump administration wants to keep the government open for the American people.”

The message is repeated in a bright red banner atop HUD’s website.

Congressional Democrats panned the overtly partisan messaging as government propaganda and misinformation, though some said they were unsurprised.

“We should not be putting political messages on government webpages,” said

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