Senate Democrats led by Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) are calling on the Government Accountability Office (GAO) to investigate what they say were “partisan messages released to the public” by federal agencies ahead of and during the government shutdown.

The lawmakers say they have “legislative responsibilities” to oversee the appropriate use of federal funds and want Comptroller General Gene Dodaro to “investigate reports that agencies directed employees to post political out-of-office messages, in order to determine whether such messages violated federal appropriations law.”

One of the most prominent examples of an official message that Democrats believe crossed the lines was a video of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem blaming Democrats for the shutdown that

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