Furloughed SBA employees set up out-of-office shutdown emails

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Staffers with the Small Business Administration who were placed on furlough set up automatic response emails pinning blame on Democrats for the shutdown , which they said already has affected hundreds of businesses from accessing millions in funding.

"I am out of office for the foreseeable future because Senate Democrats voted to block a clean federal funding bill (H.R. 5371), leading to a government shutdown that is preventing the U.S. Small Business Administration (SBA) from serving America’s 36 million small businesses," an automatic response from a furloughed SBA employee received by Fox News Digtal reads.

"Every day that Senate Democrats continue (to) oppose a clean funding bill, they are stopping an estimated 320 s