Don Bacon (NE-R) concerned President Trump's tariffs now weighing on economy of Nebraska, nation

[Omaha Steve]

Source: Omaha World Herald

Henry J. Cordes 43 mins ago

Rep. Don Bacon sees troubling signs that President Donald Trump’s tariffs are beginning to weigh on the economies of both Nebraska and the nation.

In an interview with The World-Herald, Bacon noted how Nebraska and Iowa recently posted the nation’s biggest declines in GDP. He said he has heard from Fortune 500 companies and farmers in Nebraska who claim the tariffs have harmed them.

Then there was last Friday’s job report, which showed the nation has posted anemic job growth the past two months — a report that led Trump to fire the commissioner of the Bureau of Labor Statistics.

“I think shooting the messenger is not a good thing,” said Bacon, the Republican who represents the Omaha-based 2nd Congressional District. “I think there’s some deep concerns going on with Nebraska, Iowa right now.”

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[Walleye]

1. Nebraska will continue to do every little thing that Trump demands

[FBaggins]

2. The most endangered House member tries to distance himself from Trump?

I suppose it’s a start

[Ol Janx Spirit]

16. Like all Republicans with a somewhat functional cerebral cortex, he's only speaking up on the way out the door.

But you can bet that 99% of his votes until he leaves will be WITH the the guy he says is hurting his constituents. Then, when it is so important for conservative voices to be speaking out to an audience that progressives can't reach, he will be hanging pictures of his days in congress on the walls of his new office at some lobbying firm while he mulls a run for governor.

But you have to wonder if some of what he is saying now will redound to his favor in the long run? In Trump 1.0, many of his worst instincts were suppressed by the people around him that tended to know somewhat what they were doing. The stock market cruised along and the economy generally did well. Then the pandemic came along and was incredibly mismanaged, but it is far easier to find grace for a once-in-a-century event than it is for totally self-inflicted pain. These two things largely muted the effect of his insane philosophies in the first term.

But in the intervening four years, all of the people in both his inner circle and in the Republican party at large that would temper his toddler-like impulses and views of the world have been purged. They have been replaced not by smart but cynical people willing to do his bidding for power or for money, but by people as actually demented and damaged as himself--some even more so.

The concerns that Don Bacon has about Nebraska's economy stem largely from the tariff policy pushed by Peter Navarro--a person that made up a source for an economic theory he could not back up in his book on China and tariffs. What could go wrong now that his fever dream has become reality? A lot. And it increasingly looks like it will. And that will be harder for Republicans to run away from--unless they've already done so and are waiting in the wings to pick up the mantle of what used to be conservatism.

[Oopsie Daisy]

3. Poor Nebraska.

[popsdenver]

22. How about

they call the Waaaahhhhmbulance..........(.but in all probability, in Rural Nebraska, one will arrive in hours or maybe never.......VFD's and volunteer EMT's are getting very scarce up there in Rural Nebraska.......AND the cost for a Medical Chopper is outrageous and often not covered by medical insurance........)

I have driven in Nebraska twice in my life and because of my Colorado license Plate, got pulled over both times by the State Patrol.....No offense, no ticket, just flat out harassment........

[jayschool2013]

27. I'm a native Nebraskan

I lived in Colorado for 23 years, moving there in 1990 at age 28.

I drove back to Lincoln and Omaha literally dozens of times over those 23 years, driving with my Colorado plates, and wasn't pulled over once.

NOT ONCE.

Now wearing Nebraska gear in Colorado — talk about harassment.

[popsdenver]

35. Guess I was just unlucky LOL

Back in the day, every fall the number of jokes that went back and forth about the CU-Nebraska football game were endless.......do you remember those??????????

[jayschool2013]

37. Colorado fans liked to tell them.

We generally didn't understand the disdain.

Peace.

[popsdenver]

38. I have several people

I know, that Graduated from U of Nebraska that are STILL telling them...........Do Nebraska and Colorado still even play each other????? (I don't follow sports)

[jayschool2013]

39. I taught at CU

Teams played each of the past two years. CU won in Boulder, UNL in Lincoln.

Be well.

[popsdenver]

40. Awesome

my wife got her Master's at CU, and my grandson is going there when he graduates high school next year......

I worked on the hill during the late 60's, and would walk down the street past the Theatre and Tulagis every day to the Sink for one of their scrumptious greasy burgers.........Boy, were those the days..............

It went from a beautiful small college town with some hippies, to a government, that I calll: The People's Republic of Boulder

[Buddyzbuddy]

4. If only there were something Congress critters could do?

What could that be, hmm? I'm sure it will come to you.

[mopinko]

5. ya think?

if things dont change, this will happen to every red district b4 the next election.
b afraid, assholes. b very afraid.

[The Madcap]

6. Raising prices by more than wages

Will pretty much always hurt the economy, either by reducing purchases or increasing personal debt.

[MarcoZandrini]

7. FA....

….FO.

See, that was easy.

[paleotn]

8. Ya think, Don?

For an economy that's been globalizing supply chains, like nearly every other nation on the planet, for what? 40 fucking years?! And then dumbass slaps crazed tariffs on every trading partner? What the goddamn fuck did you THINK was going to happen? Moron!

Jebus, Repukes are dumb. Fence post fucking dumb.

[Botany]

15. The Canadian P.M., Carney .... PhD economics Oxford .... and the President of Mexico, Sheinbaum ... PhD Engineering and

an expert in sustainable systems just had a meeting where they struck a trade deal between the nations and cut
Trump’s America out of it. (Btw Trump just backed down and suspended parts of the tariffs on Mexico and Canada.)

[paleotn]

26. TACO!!

[Hornedfrog2000]

34. PEDO-

TACO!

[Blue Ozarks]

9. Bacon is not concerned about Trump's pedophilia though

[Bengus81]

10. Give these tariffs a month or two to really do some damage and Trump and Republicans will be sending

yet another subsidy check to farmers. Everyone else...nothing but higher prices.

[travelingthrulife]

12. Project 2025 wants the family farm dead so maybe no checks this time?

Obviously a check for $2000.00 will do absolutely nothing about the problems of no trading market and no employees.

[NNadir]

11. Really? He thinks "shooting the messenger" "isn't good?"

How about pedophilia? Is that good? Felony convictions? Not good? Overt corruption? Not good?

How surprising!

[Hornedfrog2000]

13. The thing is, he will cater to his morons

And they will be brought to the brink, and he will throw a bread crumb and they will all fall in line, and announce he is the greatest.

[Botany]

14. Trump killed the sorghum sales to China and other international markets the 1st time. Just about every bushel of ....

….. sorghum produced in Nebraska and Kansas was already sold to China before it was even planted but Trump
killed that off with his fuck nuts trade policies. What did you think Trump would do this time? And BTW how are
Nebraska’s meat processing and packing plants doing without Hispanic employees?

“Nebraska is a major sorghum-producing state, typically ranking fifth nationally in total production. In 2023, over 225,000 acres were harvested in Nebraska, generating $75.9 million, according to the USDA National Agricultural Statistics Service. Production is concentrated in the southern part of the state and often utilizes minimum or no-tillage planting systems.”

And will Trump and the Republican use taxpayer money to pay the farmers for their losses this time too?




Leopard says, “Mmmm that is good bacon.”

[popsdenver]

23. Trump's CABAL, The Republican Party, and USSC

are already throwing the MAGA voters under the bus..............they are no longer needed, now that they have figured out an iron clad method of fixing any and all elections. Elon and Putin probably assisted them in how to corruptly do it in this last election.

The MAGA crowd have outgrown their usefulness as voters, and will get screwed, right along with all of us Dems.........

[Botany]

25. That election was as honest and real as Trump's assignation attempt

Last edited Thu Aug 7, 2025, 06:53 PM - Edit history (1)

How “they” did it. My

The front end.
True the vote vigilantes got 4 million voters removed from voting prior to the election. Targeting blacks, students, and some Hispanics. Russia emailed bomb threats to targeted precincts too.
The post office got 1/2 a million removed by saying that mail in ballots did not have the right postage.
1/2 million mail in ballots discarded because they said the signatures didn’t match. (Pure bullshit because the ballot
comes with a computer scan mark that ONLY GOES TO THE VOTER)

The back end.
Firmware patches were installed on E.S.&E. and Dominion Voting Systems operating systems and central tabulators
Musk’s Doge boys using A.I. removed millions of voters
Peter Theil’s Palantir cleaned up the deleted voter records by using a digital janitor that did not change and or delete votes
but hide the evidence that it happened.
10/30/24 Musk turned on 260 low earth orbit satellites that had DTC (direct to cell) contacts via Star Link and that
allowed communications to the firmware parches on the operating systems and central tabulators so the data could be
be looked @ and manipulated. Musk (high as a kite .. my guess) confirmed this on Joe Rogan’s show. “I have a special
app that lets me see the returns early.
The removal of millions of Harris votes lets the republicans say “well, she just didn’t get the turn out” even though she
did get the turn out but those votes just vanished without a trace.

https://www.starlink.com/us/business/direct-to-cell?srsltid=AfmBOooq1ApFbdFiAz7YSJrN84uhqCkxhRO2U42qMy99r8ayAWiaChpQ

[SergeStorms]

30. Have a rec.....

for the beautiful picture of a leopard and the caption.

[58Sunliner]

17. What a surprise.

[cloudbase]

33. Well, to be fair,

it's not as though anybody could have predicted this, right?




















/s for the challenged.

[turbinetree]

18. Well, first and foremost he's about 190 + plus days to late in that pea brain revelation that he has come to..........

realization of more perpetual gaslighting........and this twit had not one but two opportunities to impeach his orange hair fascist Nazi buddy and to add further insult to the intelligence of the people of Nebraska and the entire country he voted to basically turn this country into a third rate state...............so he really can go pound sand lots of it................your Reagan trickle down economics............ how's that working for you Donny.............and just think Donny your hero got a psychopaths in as head of HHS ................does this give you a warm fuzzy feeling..............also..............

[republianmushroom]

19. Huh, guess Don Bacon finally uncorked is head

out of trump ass.

[SergeStorms]

29. It's a surgical procedure now....

in all but the most mild cases.

[patphil]

20. I don't think Rep Bacon is concerned over the effect on Nebraska, only on his ability to get reelected.

So he has to pretend he cares.
He did vote against renaming the Gulf of Mexico to the Gulf of America; a safe vote since he was the only Republican to do so.
Otherwise, he's pretty much a Trump "Yes" button pusher.
But, there is a growing resistance to the whole tariff thing across the country, and he wants to put his "concern" into the consciousness of the voters in his district. Sort of a Susan Collins sort of thing.
His complaint about firing the commissioner of the Bureau of Labor Statistics suggests that there's a lot of backlash against transforming the BLS into a propaganda tool.

But, he has to be careful because he could get on Trump's naughty list and get "primaried".
Independent thinking isn't part of the Republican playbook.
I think he's just testing his leash.

[ananda]

21. What does "concern" mean to Republicans?

I don't really care, but I'm pretending to.

[Kid Berwyn]

24. GOPMAGANAZI is OK when San Francisco, Detroit, Philadelphia, BLUETC get screwed.

But when it hits home, well, that's another story.

[SergeStorms]

28. Dear Don Bacon (NE-R),

We told you so. Up yours. 😁

[IronLionZion]

31. No one could have seen this coming.

the only solution is cut education funding even more. Look that dirty foreigner wants to steal your job!



It's amazing how many MAGA voters have no idea what tariffs mean or how they work. Maybe it would be too woke to learn about it.

[Diamond_Dog]

32. Here come the farm bailouts from the federal gubmint.

[sakabatou]

36. "The leopard's been eating my face the whole time!"