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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsWhite House changes public voicemail to say Democrats holding government 'hostage'
Is this even legal??
Upon calling the comment line Sunday morning at (202) 456-1111, a woman's voice reads the following message:
"Thank you for calling the White House. Unfortunately, we cannot answer your call today because congressional Democrats are holding government funding, including funding for our troops and other national security priorities, hostage to an unrelated immigration debate,"
"Thank you for calling the White House. Unfortunately, we cannot answer your call today because congressional Democrats are holding government funding, including funding for our troops and other national security priorities, hostage to an unrelated immigration debate,"
http://thehill.com/blogs/ballot-box/369994-white-house-changes-public-voicemail-to-say-democrats-holding-government?amp&__twitter_impression=true
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White House changes public voicemail to say Democrats holding government 'hostage' (Original Post)
SHRED
Jan 2018
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Cary
(11,746 posts)1. How do I promote #trumpshutdown?
GrapesOfWrath
(524 posts)2. This kinda shit
Makes my head explode
Can you imagine what would have happened under President Obama? Immediate impeachment hearings.
SHRED
(28,136 posts)3. I hear ya!
gopiscrap
(23,758 posts)4. that is a public phone line paid for by the public
it should have a neutral message
Turbineguy
(37,322 posts)5. It's only fair
to give credit to the 6th grader who wrote it. But I bet they won't. I bet trump will take credit for it.
tritsofme
(17,377 posts)6. Not that they care, but this smells like a Hatch Act violation.
Afromania
(2,768 posts)7. Petty ass middle school stuff right there.
Generic Other
(28,979 posts)8. So the white house suddenly is telling the truth?
What a joke.
Iliyah
(25,111 posts)9. Something a high school bully would do
These people are sooooooooooooooooooo immature.
Initech
(100,068 posts)10. Legality? Morals? Ethics? Who needs that shit? This is 2018 here!
Fatemah2774
(245 posts)11. I don't get this...
This should be a Hatch Act violation as an earlier poster wrote, but how does this stop? This is the weekend, who determines this message and how do we get our representatives and senators to demand this be removed?