GET ME REWRITE: Nebraska GOP Rep. Don Bacon sez he won't walk off a cliff for Trump but voted for his "Big Beautiful Bill"

 

The guy is trying to have it both ways!

Headline:  AlterNet, 6/8/2025

Carl Gibson reports:

In a recent interview with the New York Times, Rep. Don Bacon (R-Neb.) defended his more frequent public opposition to Trump's agenda as simply "being on the right side" of history. A retired brigadier general in the Air Force, Bacon is likely to decide soon whether to run for a sixth term in Congress or retire when his current term expires. "I’d like to fight for the soul of our party," Bacon told the Times. "I don’t want to be the guy who follows the flute player off the cliff. I think that’s what’s going on right now."  

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Bacon has a mixed record of backing GOP priorities during Trump's second term. While he voted in favor of the "One Big Beautiful Bill Act" that cuts Medicaid by hundreds of billions of dollars while extending tax cuts that primarily benefit the richest Americans, the Nebraska Republican has opposed the bill renaming the Gulf of Mexico to Trump's preferred name for the body of water.  [emphasis added]

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