Trump's government gag order blocks agencies from talking to Congress

Rss@dailykos.com (mark Sumner) · Tuesday, January 24, 2017, 3:36 pm

First the National Park Service was banned from using social media because one Park Service Twitter account dared to retweet images showing Trump’s less-than-stellar inaugural crowd. Then the EPA was blocked from all forms of external communication. The research arm of the USDA was the next to go behind the Trump Curtain. And it seems that this glittery gilt wall of silence is not just spreading, but even cutting off communication with Congress.

Multiple federal agencies have told their employees to cease communications with members of Congress and the press, sources have told The Huffington Post.

The freeze has startled aides on the Hill and people at those agencies, who worry that it could abruptly upend current operations and stifle work and discussions that routinely take place between branches of government.

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