When the federal government shut down Wednesday, official channels moved quickly to send a clear, united message to panicked Americans: the “Radical Left in Congress” was to blame.

Bright red banners went live across federal agencies’ homepages with the message, and over the first two days of the shutdown, Republican lawmakers flooded social media, issued statements and made TV appearances accusing Democrats of “ derailing appropriations bills ” and “[shutting] down the government.”

But Bay Area Democrats aren’t taking the heat, instead pointing the finger at Republicans.

“Trump and Republicans are now inflicting a painful shutdown on the American people because they refuse to protect America’s health care,” Speaker Emerita Nancy Pelosi said Thursday at San Francisco’s North East Me

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