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Comment by LostMyLogin | Hacker News Reader

The official White House website now lists a banner reading “Democrats Have Shut Down the Government” with a timer.

https://www.whitehouse.gov/

I fear this may longer than I originally suspected.

Combined with the mass e-mails Trump appointees sent out within different departments, these are crimes under the Hatch Act, since they are using government resources for nakedly partisan purposes.

My favorite part is the Hero countdown timer on the index page (https://www.whitehouse.gov/) and the countdown timer graphic on the dedicated govt shutdown page (https://www.whitehouse.gov/government-shutdown-clock/) don't match:

https://i.imgur.com/3SNa03R.png

Not to mention, the graphic is extraordinarily ugly.

Interesting - I don't see that all. What CDN does that site use? I wonder if there's a caching issue on my side...

Most likely you (wisely) have something blocking the Javascript they're using.

There's a big black bar across the top of the homepage, with a message that changes depending on the time, ex:

    <a id="announcement-bar" href="https://whitehouse.gov/government-shutdown-clock/" class="announcement-bar--link">
      <span class="announcement-bar__text" style="display: none;">Democrat Shutdown is Imminent</span>
      <span class="announcement-bar__end-text" style="">Democrats Have Shut Down the Government</span>
      <span class="announcement-bar__countdown">3h 2m 21s</span>
    </a>

Clicking the link opens another page that claims:

> Democrats Have Shut Down the Government

> Americans Don’t Agree with Democrats’ Actions

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