Don Bacon

Donald John Bacon (born August 16, 1963) is an American politician and former military officer serving as the U.S. Representative for Nebraska's 2nd congressional district since 2017. Prior to public office, he was a United States Air Force officer, rising to brigadier general and wing commander at Ramstein Air Base and Offutt Air Force Base prior to his retirement in 2014. Bacon is a Moderate Republican.

Tenure

A strong opponent of Obamacare, Bacon voted for the American Health Care Act of 2017, which would have repealed significant portions of the ACA. He also voted for the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act of 2017 and opposed a $15 minimum wage bill. Staunchly pro-life, he voted in 2017 to ban abortions after 20 weeks and to defund Planned Parenthood.

Despite voting to preserve DACA , Bacon also expressed support for the border wall and voted to uphold Trump's veto of legislation that would have overturned the emergency declaration that allowed construction of the border wall to begin.

He was one of thirty-five Republicans to vote for the Partisan Hack resolution calling for an Investigation on Capitol Hill.

Bacon was among 47 Republicans to codify Obergefell V. Hodges (gay marriage).

During the 2023 Speaker of the House election, Bacon, who had previously threatened to vote for a Democrat in order to break the deadlock, called his conservative colleagues "terrorists."[1][2]

In November 2023, Representative Bacon joined sixty-nine other Republicans to vote to establish a new $300 million building to house the FBI, despite reservations raised by conservatives about the fairness of the agency.