Nebraska Rep. Bacon to host 2nd town hall in over-the-phone format Nebraska Rep. Don Bacon is hosting his second townhall in an over-the-phone format Monday evening. A release from Rep. Bacon’s office says they will be holding a “tele-townhall” due to the large number of people who wish to… Read more »

Rep. Don Bacon introduces bill increasing penalties for attacking public safety officers Congressman Don Bacon introduced legislation Thursday that would increase criminal penalties for anyone convicted of killing or conspiring to kill public safety officers. The so-called "Back the Blue Act" would also create mandatory minimums for assaulting a federally funded state or local law… Read more »

Bacon joins probe into Musk and Grok AI over allegations of antisemitism, ‘deeply alarming messages’ Nebraska U.S. Rep. Don Bacon, R-Neb., is among three members of Congress seeking answers from Elon Musk and his xAI Corp. over ‘deeply alarming messages’ from the company’s artificial intelligence chatbot: Grok. Bacon and Reps. Tom Suozzi, D-N.Y., and Josh Gottheimer, D-N.J., wrote a… Read more »

Nebraska Rep. Don Bacon to host telephone town hall   Rep. Don Bacon will hold a telephone town hall with residents of Nebraska’s 2nd Congressional District on July 21 at 6:30 p.m. The event will also stream over audio online. Residents who want to attend can register at bacon.house.gov/live. They may also call in the evening of July 21 to 855-962-1225. “Due to the… Read more »

Outgoing GOP Rep. Don Bacon expresses interest in presidency, governorship While Rep. Don Bacon, R-Neb., will not seek re-election next year, he is leaving the door open to the prospect of further public service, expressing interest in potentially serving as governor, or even president. "I got asked the other day, ‘You say you’re interested in being an executive — is that governor… Read more »

Centrist Rep. Don Bacon is done with Congress — but open to a potential presidential bid Centrist Rep. Don Bacon, one of the most vulnerable Republicans in the House, said this week he doesn’t have the “hunger” for another grueling re-election campaign and won’t run for a sixth term next year. But Bacon, who spent 30 years in the Air Force and specialized in intelligence matters, said… Read more »

Don Bacon votes yes on Trump's 'Big Beautiful Bill': 'No bill is going to be perfect' Weighing it all, U.S. Rep. Don Bacon said in the end he saw more good than bad in President Donald Trump’s “One Big Beautiful Bill.” The Republican congressman representing the Omaha-based 2nd District on Thursday supported the bill carrying Trump’s agenda — including extending tax cuts, increasing… Read more »

Top lawmaker wants more progress on EW capabilities across services “We’ve made some progress this year [but] here’s my concern: there’s a lot of studies and there’s a lot of paper, but paper doesn’t jam and paper doesn’t hit missiles,” Rep. Don Bacon, R-Neb., said Tuesday during an event hosted by the Mitchell Institute for Aerospace Studies. “We need to have more capability output, and… Read more »

Bacon praises Trump decision to bomb Iran nuclear sites and says Iran’s capabilities are depleted Nebraska Congressman Don Bacon said the U.S. military is in a strong position to respond to Iranian retaliation following President Donald Trump’s decision to attack the country. In a press call Monday afternoon, Bacon praised Trump’s… Read more »

Congressman Don Bacon's office provides insight into process of ICE operation in south Omaha Dozens of people were detained during the raid at Glenn Valley Foods on Tuesday. The operation was conducted by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement. Congressman Don Bacon's deputy chief of staff of district operations, James Wright, said as of Wednesday morning, 74 people were still in… Read more »