March 2023

We’re rolling toward the halfway mark of the session. At this point, we’re debating legislative bills/resolutions that have been voted out of their respective committees in the mornings until the lunch hour with committee hearings following in the afternoon. There are many issues we face in Southeast Nebraska; tax relief is always at the top of my agenda. Governor Jim Pillen designated six priority bills for this Legislative session aimed at modernizing Nebraska’s tax code and making our state’s tax structure more competitive with other states. This week, I would like to highlight some of those bills for tax relief.

This week the Supreme Court heard arguments on Biden v. Nebraska and U.S. Department of Education v. Brown, two challenges to the Biden administration’s student debt cancellation proposal. The administration’s debt cancellation scam is just one example of a pattern of irresponsible economic policies that have resulted in ongoing inflation, exacerbated workforce woes, and increased financial hardship hitting American households.

This weekend, I had the opportunity to visit our southern border and see firsthand the chaos occurring there. Our trip to the Rio Grande Valley reaffirmed that what is going on at our border is nothing short of a national security crisis. The Biden administration’s reckless disregard for border security has turned every state — including Nebraska — into a border state.