Across the country, people are rationing medication, delaying retirement, and skipping doctor visits because they can’t afford health care.

Economists warn that new tariffs could cost the average household more than $2,500 a year. And energy prices are climbing again as global tensions drive up oil costs.

At a time when families are struggling with rising costs, Nebraskans deserve to know why their representatives are prioritizing an expensive foreign conflict instead of focusing on lowering costs here at home.

Congressmen Don Bacon and Mike Flood voted for the most regressive tax policy in modern history—a law that hands massive tax breaks to the wealthy and corporations while gutting the programs Nebraska families rely on to survive.

Instead of protecting the people they were elected to serve, Rep. Bacon and Rep. Flood are siding with the ultra-wealthy, and it’s working families who will pay the price.

Small businesses and farmers are the backbone of our community. But right now, many of these local businesses are navigating a perfect storm of challenges that make it harder than ever to thrive. Here in Nebraska, farmers are already feeling it. Fuel and fertilizer prices have jumped in recent days as the war disrupts global energy markets.

According to recent reporting, small business owners are confronting multiple pressures that put their future at risk, including rising costs for goods, services, and labor, supply chain disruptions that lead to delays, lost sales, and unpredictability, competitive pressure from large corporations with deeper pockets, difficulty recruiting and retaining employees, a struggle that impacts service and growth, and limited access to affordable financing as interest rates and loan requirements tighten. These aren’t abstract issues, they’re real concerns for friends, neighbors, and business owners we see every day.

As Nebraskans, we work, AND we work hard. No family deserves to worry about being able to put food on the table or a roof over their loved ones’ heads. Nebraskans need more opportunities to earn good-paying jobs, not less. We want to be able to afford a brighter future for our families, and we deserve representatives in Congress who helps us keep more of our hard-earned money and keep prices low.

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Thousands of Nebraskans rely on Social Security, Medicaid, and Medicare to keep their families healthy and make ends meet. But our representatives want to take these hard-earned benefits away.

The Republican Tax Law cuts up to $4 billion in federal Medicaid funding from Nebraska and this will result in 30,000 Nebraskans losing Medicaid. This is the biggest cut to Medicaid in history, kicking millions off their coverage, and putting rural hospitals at risk of closure.