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Senate Democrats are requesting an investigation into "partisan messaging" that the Trump administration used on official government websites during the longest government shutdown in U.S. history.

Sens. Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts and Adam Schiff of California and others are urging the nonpartisan Government Accountability Office (GAO) to launch a probe into whether the Trump administration crossed a line and broke federal laws due to messages posted on official government websites that pinned the blame on Democrats for the shutdown.

"Some agencies’ announcements appeared to include nothing more than partisan messaging and lacked a connection to official business," lawmakers wrote in a letter, sent to GAO Nov. 9

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