One highly noticeable attaboy, and one silence-is-deafening no-mention—that’s some of the key fall-out from Republican Congressman Don Bacon’s vote for President Biden's $1.2 trillion infrastructure bill.

The loud applause comes from Big Labor in Omaha, specifically State Sen. Mike McDonnell, President of the Omaha Federation of Labor, AFL-CIO—who, according to several top sources close to him, will be running for mayor of the state’s largest city in 2025.

The one-handed applause is coming from Jane KIeeb, the head of the Nebraska Democratic Party.

While McDonnell was issuing a news release headlined, “The Omaha Federation of Labor Supports Congressman Don Bacon’s Infrastructure Vote” and then hyping Bacon’s “strong ‘yes’ vote” to “build a better Nebraska” helping create a “better life for our children and grandchildren” Kleeb in her similar size statement never mentions Bacon—only talking up her party.

According to Kleeb, “Democrats are building the economy and creating jobs, while Republicans continue to turn their backs on Nebraska families.”

Meanwhile Bacon, one of the lonely 13 House Republicans who broke with their party to vote thumbs-up, notes that “70 percent” of metro Omaha’s 2nd Congressional District supports the bill.

Axios reported that Bacon told them, "You vote one way, maybe it hurts in the primary. You vote the other way... in my district, it'd hurt me in the general." And that comment led Newsweek to headline that Bacon says he voted for the bill to “Boost his Chance at Reelection.”

In case you're wondering Bacon says he's voting "A hard 'NO'" on Biden's $1.85 trillion Build Better Back plan, labeled by Bacon as the "Bernie Sanders Socialist Budget Busting Bill" and nothing like his yes vote to "fix our highways, seaports and locks, and...provide more access to rural broadband."