NE-SEN: Nebraska governor running for Sasse's Senate seat

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Nebraska Gov. Pete Ricketts (R) on Tuesday announced he’ll try for the appointment to replace outgoing Sen. Ben Sasse (R) and represent the state in the U.S. Senate, according to local outlets.

“For me, it came down to a single question: How can I best serve the people of Nebraska and advance our conservative values? In Congress, we’re in a fight for the future of our nation, and it’s a fight we have to win. We must cut taxes, strengthen public safety and our national security, and protect our most sacred freedoms,” Ricketts said in a statement shared with The Hill.

Ricketts was already set to leave the governor’s office in January, having not sought reelection due to term limits, and has long been eyed as a possible contender to fill the Sasse is stepping down from his Senate seat to become the next president of the University of Florida. He’s set to leave the upper chamber in January, well before his current term ends in 2027.

Sasse is stepping down from his Senate seat to become the next president of the University of Florida. He’s set to leave the upper chamber in January, well before his current term ends in 2027.




https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/3763647-nebraska-governor-running-for-sasses-senate-seat/

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1. Gee Governor, what's your plan?

You say you want to cut taxes, but also strengthen public safety and national security. We already spend more than $2 billion a day, every day on defense. Does your plan to "strengthen" those programs involve spending even more money on them? And if it does, doesn't cutting taxes mean borrowing more money to cover the budget deficit? Or does that mean you're going to shift other spending by the government so that you can pour more money into the bottomless maw of the defense industry? What items in the national budget do you propose to cut? Or should we guess?