Here is the message you hear when you try to reach the public comment line at the White House.

@jaketapper I didn't believe it. So I called. @WhiteHouse comment line recording pic.twitter.com/WxlS9PUrd0

— Favian Quezada (@FavianQuezada) January 20, 2018

Courtesy of The Hill:

The White House's public comment telephone line isn't accepting calls amid the ongoing government shutdown, and its recently updated recorded message blames it on Democrats. 

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," she says. 

“Due to this obstruction, the government is shut down," she continues. “In the meantime, you can leave a comment for the president at www.whitehouse.gov/contact. We look forward to taking your calls as soon as the government reopens.” 

The call then disconnects.

That is an official White House recording. Your tax dollars paid for that.

Blaming the Democrats for this is the current GOP tactic, but unfortunately for them it is hard to make that case when you control the White House, the Senate, and the Congress.

Privately even Trump admits that it is likely HE will be blamed for this shut down.