Trump Administration Sued for Agency’s Blame-Democrats Emails

The largest federal employees union filed a lawsuit accusing the US Department of Education of unlawfully inserting partisan language into the automated out-of-office emails sent from accounts of furloughed workers during the government shutdown that began Wednesday.

The American Federation of Government Employees, which represents about 800,000, claims in the suit filed Friday that email settings for department workers were changed without their permission to include messages blaming the shutdown on Democratic lawmakers. The union also cited similar language on other government agency websites, according to the federal lawsuit filed in Washington.

“Forcing civil servants to speak on behalf of ...