As a government shutdown grows more and more likely one Nebraska Republican is taking fire, while another is firing back.

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With a government shutdown looming the blame game is in full force, on the heels of a close win in 2022 and expecting a tough rematch reelection fight next year, Republican Omaha Congressman Don Bacon is reportedly backing a bipartisan short-term spending bill to keep the government open—the “Bipartisan Keep America Open Act”—but that hasn’t stopped his critics.

“Unrig our Economy” Ad: “Don Bacon pushes for bigger tax breaks for corporations and billionaires. C’mon Don save our Bacon not theirs. Don’t shut us down.”

And if there’s a shutdown, President Biden has made it clear who he blames.

President Joe Biden: “The Republicans in the House of Representatives refuse—refuse to stand up to the extremists in their party, so now everyone in America could be forced to pay the price.”

But the Republican Speaker of the House---blames the president.

Kevin McCarthy/House Speaker: “He changed all the policies on the border. He can change those, we can keep government open.”

The Senate has unveiled a bipartisan stopgap spending bill that would include $6 billion for Ukraine and avert a shutdown. Nebraska’s two Republican Senators Pete Ricketts and Deb Fischer were among the 19 GOP Senators voting against the deal.

Sen. Pete Ricketts, NE (R): “Chuck Schumer is forcing a vote with the false choice of a bloated and wasteful omnibus bill or a government shutdown. It’s wrong, it’s manipulative and I won’t stand for it. We cannot keep giving Democrats a black check to spend American taxpayer dollars however they want.”

Joe Jordan, NCN: “In terms of the Senate proposal, 19 Republicans voted for it, some 25 voted for it. Aren’t you swimming badly upstream even in your own party?’

Sen. Pete Ricketts: “What I believe is if we continue to vote for this bad process, we’re going to continue to get this bad process. We’ve got to change the process, we’ve got to get these bills out in a timely manner. So we can have debates, so we can have amendments and that we’re not so jammed at the end of the fiscal year, trying to pass this stuff.”

But over in Iowa, Senators Chuck Grassley and Joni Ernst, both Republicans, voted for that Senate deal.

A deal reportedly going nowhere in the House.

The shutdown is just three days away.