Employees at the Department of Housing and Urban Development were instructed to message outside an office, saying, “The Federal Government Expenditure Authority ended at 11:59 at September 30, 2025, so most HUD programs have been temporarily prevented, and most HUD employees have been told that they cannot work as a result of any disadvantage.”
On the agency’s website, however, a pop -up window has announced, “The government has closed the radical left in Congress. HUD will use the resources available to help Americans need.” The same language appears on a red banner at the top of the website, as well as in a pop-up with the same banner in the agency’s internal consolidated human resources and training system.
“You can’t click on anything except these boring pop ups. Please click each single to go to a time card or HRCNT,” an HUD employee who asked to stay anonymously because they are not authorized to talk to the press. “It fuck nuts.”
HUD did not respond to any request for comment.
The website of the judiciary (DOJ) also includes a banner, “Democrats have closed the government. The judiciary websites are not currently updated regularly.”
DOG did not respond to any request to comment.
Led up to the shutdown, staff across the government Received the email Agency leaders have a similar feeling with SBA email. An email from HUD’s deputy secretary Andrew Hughes on the evening of September 7 included the line of the subject, “far -flung governor shutdown is upcoming” and included instructions for HUD staff during the shutdown. An email received by employees in the interior department with the signature of Secretary Doug Bergam, “President Trump has opposed an official shutdown, and has strongly supported the law enforcement of HR 5371, which is a clear resolution for the government through November 21, which has already passed the House of the United States.
Almost identical emails were sent to the staff of the Small Business Administration (SBA) from the email related to the Chief Human Capital Officer (CHCO).
Monihan says, “The tone of the language is opposed to the tone of the language.” If you have a federal employee who blamed President Trump to close their colleagues, their hatch law would be followed for violations and perhaps it would be dismissed in it. “
In A memo of posted at x It seemed to be sent to the executive departments and agencies chiefs, the head of the Russell Bhut, the office of the office of Management and Budget (OMB), complained that the government was shutting down because of the “insane policy demand” from the Democrats.
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