When furloughed workers’ out-of-office emails were overwritten with partisan messages by Team Trump at the start of the government shutdown, Donald Trump’s MAGA goons probably thought it was all a clever wheeze.

The president’s acolytes at the Office of Management and Budget are said to have pushed agencies—including Education, Labor, and Justice—to change auto-replies without consent, to blame “Democrat Senators” for the shutdown.

But now there are growing calls for hearings into whether they broke ethics rules or laws.

The House Education and the Workforce Committee’s top Democrat, Bobby Scott, has written to Republicans urging them to hold a hearing into the matter, accusing several federal agencies of taking “political actions in apparent violation of the Hatch Act.”

In a letter

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