Welcome to another “What If?” press conference, questions for Nebraska’s congressional delegation in Washington. Since our last session, the White House has tried to shutter the U.S. Department of Education, our tariff “policy” resembles a yo-yo, the inaptly-named “big, beautiful bill” has uglied up the nation’s balance sheet, and curious Americans have taken to looking up both “emoluments” and “original sin.”

Let’s start with the aforementioned BBB. The House kept vampire hours to pass it by a single vote, after which the yays, apparently in a fit of sleep-deprived hubris, congratulated themselves before the bill went to the Senate. We have a couple questions:

Your own accounting firm, the Congressional Budget Office, determined the BBB gives 60% of its tax breaks to the top fifth of th

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