The closure of the Sparks Blame Game government in the race of the Governor of New Jersey

Madison, NJ – Exclusive: The national capital is not the only battlefield in the game of blame between the Democrats and the Republicans during the first closure of the federal government in seven years.

The Verbal Crossfire also takes place on the New Jersey campaign campaign, which houses one of the only two elections for the governor through the country this year.

The republican candidate for Governor Jack Ciattarelli, in an exclusive national interview with Fox News Digital, pointed to his democratic rival, representative Mikie Sherrill.

After Sherrill, a MP for four terms, accused a statement that “Washington Republicans have once again shown that they are ready to turn their backs on the American people in order to follow blindly Donald Trump Ask, “Ciattarelli criticized her opponent in combustible, competitive and highly publicized ballot boxes.

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Jack Ciattarelli, the republican candidate for the governor of New Jersey, participates in a forum of candidates at Fairleigh Dickinson University, on October 1, 2025 in Madison, NJ (Paul Steinhauser – Fox News)

“”There is nothing that my opponent does not blame on President Trump. As I like to say, if you get an apartment (tire) today, it is President Trump’s fault, “said Ciattarelli, in an interview after participating in a candidate forum organized by Fairleigh Dickinson University.

Neither Trump and the Republican majority at the Congress, nor the Democrats of the Congress wishing to reduce the temperature, the government closed its doors on Wednesday morning.

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The Democrats insisted that any agreement to prevent a government closure, or now to end the closure, must extend the tax credits for the Acting Acting Act (ACA) beyond the end of this year. These credits, on which millions of Americans count to reduce the costs of health care plans under ACA, which was once known as Obamacare, should expire unless the congress is.

But most Republicans oppose the extension of credits and argue that the Democrats’ demands would lead to a huge increase in health care funded by taxpayers for immigrants who have illegally entered the country.

Sherrill, with all the other Democrats in the Chamber, with the exception of representative Jared Golden of Maine, voted against a measure of the Gopgap Gopgap which would have temporarily avoided the closure.

A closed panel is in front of the national archives on the first day of a government closure on Wednesday, October 1, 2025, in Washington. (Julia Demaree Nikhinson – AP Photo)

Ciattarelli, stressing the vote of his rival in the congress, said: “I know that there is a bipartite congress group which tries to keep the government open. My opponent decided not to be part of this bipartite group, and she voted no. And so we are here.”

Sherrill, who has repeatedly linked Ciattarrelli to Trump, placed the closure blame outright on Trump’s shoulders, writing in an article on social networks, “it is precisely the Maga Far Agenda that @ Jack4NJ wants to bring to the NJ.”

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And targeting the Republicans of the Congress in a declaration from his office of the Chamber, Sherrill argued that “instead of working with Democrats to reduce costs, protect health care and support workers, Washington Republicans have folded the knee to Donald Trump, closing the government in the process”.

The democratic representative of the governor of governor Mikie Sherrill of New Jersey answers questions during the first general electoral debate with the republican opponent Jack Ciattarelli. Sunday September 21, 2025 in Lawrenceville, NJ (AP photo / Noah K. Murray)

A few hours before closing, the Trump administration announced the freezing of billions of dollars in federal funding for two infrastructure projects, including the Gateway project, which was building a new train tunnel under the Hudson river connecting New Jersey and New York.

Sherrill quickly slammed the movement and pointed out his fingers on Ciattarelli. She is committed to “fighting teeth and nails to complete this essential infrastructure project for New Jersey. Jack Ciattarelli will not do so. He refused to appoint a single area where he does not agree with Trump”.

But the main strategist of the Ciattarelli campaign, Chris Russell, retaliated in a press release, saying: “Don’t be mistaken, Mikie Sherrill has this closure and is responsible for any negative impact on (the) Passerelle Tunnel project and other NJ priorities.”

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With a little over a month before election day in New Jersey – and the early vote takes place on October 25 -Nov. 2 – A new Fox News survey indicated that Sherrill holding an advance greater than a figure on Ciattarelli.

But Ciattarelli, a former state legislator and certified accountant who launched a medical publishing company before putting himself in politics, boasted that “energy is outside the graphics, and the fact that I am approved by the Democratic mayors of the State speaks volumes about the people who wish changes here in the state of New Jersey.”

The two candidates will compete next week during their second debate and final before the voters went to the elections of the elections to succeed the Democratic Governor in the long term Phil Murphy.

Asked about his debate game plan, Ciattarelli, who is the GOP candidate for a second consecutive second cycle and almost defeated Murphy four years ago, said that he would be very, very specific with political proposals that solve our problems here in New Jersey and would signal each time that she does not answer the question of the questions. “”

The republican candidate Jack Ciattarelli, on the left, shakes the hand of the Democratic candidate for Governor Mikie Sherrill, on the right, before a debate on Sunday September 21, 2025, in Lawrenceville, NJ (AP photo / Noah K. Murray)

The candidates for the post of governor of New Jersey present themselves on a party ticket and the Democrats on Wednesday highlighted a comment of the nominee of the Lieutenant-Governor of the GOP, Jim Gannon, the sheriff of the county of Morris, in a debate earlier this week that “the taxes are on the table”.

Asked about the commentary on his running mate, Ciattarelli stressed that “there will be no increase in taxes with Governor Ciattarelli. And I would present a very specific plan on how to reduce income and land tax here in New Jersey.”

The race was shaken last week after a report by New Jersey Globe revealed that Sherrill’s military files said the United States Naval Academy prevented it from participating in its 1994 diploma in the middle of the cheating scandal.

Sherrill claims that Ciattarelli takes place in a “witch hunt” on his poorly released military archives, which raised questions about his possible involvement in a cheating scandal that rocked the American Naval Academy three decades ago.

“He was taken with his hand in the cookie pot, if you want. He is now trying to divert from that,” Sherrill told journalists on Tuesday after a campaign event at Wildwood Crest, New Jersey.

Ciattarelli and his campaign call Sherrill, who continued to pilot helicopters during his military career after graduating from the Naval Academy, to release her military files to explain why she was prevented from attending her graduation ceremony.

But a distinct report by CBS News revealed that the National Personal Records Center, which is a branch of the National Archives and Records Administration, has mistakenly published the files of inappropriate military personnel from Sherrill, which included private information such as its social security number, to an ally Ciattarelli.

“To have a guy against whom I run, it does not stop at anything, it will not stop at nothing, which will illegally get records. It is just beyond the pale,” accused Sherrill, who was a federal prosecutor before winning the elections in the Congress, charged last week.

The national archives, in a letter last week, apologized to Sherrill, saying that the inappropriate liberation was due to the error of a government worker concerning a request for legal files.

Following the violation of files, Sherrill’s campaign sent letters to stop ceasing the national archives and the Ciattarelli campaign, as well as Russell and Nicholas de Gregorio, which is described by the Sherrill team as “a campaign agent working in the direction of” Russell.

The Sherrill campaign launched a digital ad By targeting Ciattarelli.

“They broke the law to attack a veteran,” accused the narrator of the place.

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Asked about the announcement, Ciattarelli was charged in his digital interview Fox News that Sherrill “did something to the Naval Academy which led them to punish it. She was not allowed to participate in the delivery of diplomas. Her name is not listed in the starting program. She was in fact punished.

And asked questions about the release of his military files and criticism from Democrats with possible dirty things, said Ciattarelli “Someone has filed a law on freedom of information, and it was filled by the national archives. And it is therefore a whole screen of smoke. The information that came out of there is what the national archives provided, but it is a smoke screen and a turn of what really went to the naval academy, and that is its punishment.”