Employees at the Small Business Administration received an HR-provided template for their out-of-office email on the first day of the government shutdown , instructing them to blame Democrats .

The message is part of a wider Trump administration strategy to say across all media that Democrats are at fault for the shutdown, a theme echoed not just inside agencies, but also on official federal websites and even the White House comment line.

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