A federal workers’ union filed a lawsuit against the Department of Education on Friday for changing the Department’s employees’ automated emails to include partisan language about the government shutdown. “Federal employees already are suffering financially by going without a salary due to this politically motivated government shutdown,” AFGE National President Everett Kelley said in a statement. The lawsuit comes after some furloughed employees found that their automated emails were changed to include language blaming Democrats for the shutdown. The complaint said that DOE initially provided employees with “factual” and “nonpartisan” language to include in their out-of-office emails. As the complaint outlines, the emails are part of the Trump administration’s broader messaging to blame Democrats for the government shutdown.