(NewsNation) — Scott Turner, President Trump’s secretary of Housing and Urban Development, rejects accusations his agency was misusing its government website by publicly blaming Democrats for the government shutdown.

A red banner at the top of hud.gov on Wednesday evening offered this assessment: “The Radical Left in Congress shut down the government. HUD will use available resources help Americans in need.”

That message was shorter than the longer one posted the day before, on the eve of the shutdown, as documented in a Getty Images photograph. It said: “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. The Trump administration wants to keep the government open for the American

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