( October 6, 2025, 9:44 AM EDT) -- WASHINGTON, D.C. — The U.S. Department of Education replaced workers’ federal government shutdown out-of-office messages “with partisan language that blames ‘Democrat Senators’ for the shutdown,” forcing those workers “to involuntarily parrot the Trump Administration’s talking points with emails sent out in their names,” alleges an Oct. 3 complaint filed by American Federation of Government Employees (AFGE) in a federal court in the District of Columbia....