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FRESNO COUNTY, Calif. (KSEE/KGPE) – If you're looking for the champion places to hike successful the area, you mightiness extremity up uncovering stronger-than-expected opinions connected the Sierra National Forest's website.
A speedy hunt volition instrumentality visitors to the USDA's Forest Service webpage, which, since Wednesday, has been adorned with a ample yellowish warning. It reads:
"The Radical Left Democrats unopen down the government. This authorities website volition beryllium updated periodically during the backing lapse for ngo captious functions. President Trump has made it wide helium wants to support the authorities unfastened and enactment those who feed, fuel, and clothe the American people."
The substance was archetypal spotted connected Oct. 1, aft Congress failed to scope an statement connected the budget. While nary enactment tin wholly instrumentality blame, akin messages person been appearing connected assorted authorities websites.
The Department of the Treasury calls the shutdown a prime and blames "the radical left" for "reckless spending and obstructionism."
Other sites that blasted democrats oregon "the extremist left" see the White House, the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, the U.S. Department of Justice, the U.S. Department of State, and the Department of Health and Human Services.
The disapproval is not lone directed astatine the left, however. Some authorities websites, including the California State Park website, partially blasted the president.
"The national authorities has unopen down, owed to the failures of the President and Congress to proceed authorities funding."
While the authorities is partisan by nature, according to the DOJ, the 1939 Hatch Act "prohibits national employees from engaging successful partisan governmental enactment portion connected duty, successful a national facility, oregon utilizing national property."
YourCentralValley.com reached retired to respective authorities officials to corroborate whether oregon not posting messages to a authorities website is simply a usurpation of the Hatch Act, but has received nary comment.
Despite the wide governmental mudslinging, galore authorities websites stay neutral, including: Cal Fire, USGS, NASA, U.S. Department of Education, Homeland Security, U.S. Department of Veteran Affairs, Medicaid, FEMA, National Archives, Department of Labor, Census, ICE, Federal Student Aid, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, the U.S. Department of the Interior, the IRS, U.S. Customs and Border Protection, the Federal Trade Commission, and the National Institute of Health.
