Bacon said calls into his Capitol Hill office have been running 70 percent in favor of the wall, which he noted was a central plank in Trump’s presidential platform.

“This was the president’s top issue in the campaign,” Bacon said. “It was never really my issue. I never supported a 2,000-mile wall, but it was his top issue. And I think that that’s how the system works. There’s got to be give and take. For him to get zero on this is not — I think it would be too much to expect to say you’re going to get zero, period, and have him roll over on it.”

Rep. Jeff Fortenberry, R-Neb., a member of the House Appropriations Committee, said he wants to reopen the government, but he also wants the right type of border security.

“A long-term shutdown is not sustainable,” Fortenberry said. “I think most Americans are with the president and with those of us who again want clarity on how we are going to actually advance border security. But I’m worried that the commingling with the shutdown actually undermines the ability to have that argument for border security.”

The four GOP senators from Nebraska and Iowa have also been keeping rank, with none of them calling for the Senate to take up the House-passed spending bills.