Government website blames shutdown on “radical left.” Ethics group ca…

Ahead of the looming government shutdown, the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development on Tuesday posted a banner in large type on its homepage blaming the shutdown on the “Radical Left,” an allegation that an ethics group said was a “blatant violation” of the Hatch Act. 

“The Radical Left are going to shut down the government and inflict massive pain on the American people unless…