The Office of Management and Budget (OMB) provided the following template language to establish employees’ out-of-office notifications.

“Furloughed Employees: Thank you for contacting me. On September 19, 2025, the House of Representatives passed H.R. 5371, a clean continuing resolution. Unfortunately, Democrat Senators are blocking passage of H.R. 5371 in the Senate which has led to a lapse in appropriations. Due to the lapse in appropriations I am currently in furlough status. I will respond to emails once government functions resume,” the text read.

However, multiple furloughed employees at the Department of Education report their out-of-office replies were automatically reset to mimic the language above – without their permission.

“They changed our out-of-office message… [They] did it after everyone left,” one department of education staffer told ABC News. “[I’m] so pissed,” they said.

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    Do we call Republican senators Republic Senators?

    But that’s because Republican is both the noun and the adjective, unlike Democrat and Democratic. We don’t call democratic senators democracy senators, which would be the equivalent of republic senators.

    Technically we shouldn’t even call them republican senators. Grammatically, the correct term should be pack of nazis.