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Washington – Representative Don Bacon, a centrist republican who represents a key district of the battlefield in Nebraska, plans to announce his retirement CongressAccording to two sources familiar with the situation.
He should make an official announcement next week, when the room is about to vote on the radical legislation of President Donald Trump nicknamed “Big Beautiful Bill.”
Bacon did not immediately respond to a request for comments on Friday evening.
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Punchbowl News reported for the first time his retirement plans.
Bacon represented the 2nd district of the State Congress, which includes a large part of the Metropolitan region of Omaha, since 2017, when he defeated his Democratic opponent with less than 5,000 votes. Since then, Bacon has kept the siege in the Gop column, but has only reached victorious in the last elections, including last year, when he won less than 2 percentage points.
Bacon’s departure will offer Democrats the opportunity to take a seat in a district that has shown an appetite to support Democratic candidates on the ballot in the last elections.
The president of the time, Kamala Harris, carried the district Almost 5 percentage points in 2024 – Bacon one of the three republicans of the Chamber to serve in a district won. Joe Biden won the Bacon district with an even larger margin in 2020.
Bacon was among the few vocal republican criticisms of the Trump agenda, sometimes arguing the president on his use of prices and his decision to rename the Gulf of Mexico, and accuse him of treating Russia with “velvet gloves”.
With his announcement, Bacon will join nearly half a dozen republicans of the room who opted for the re-election of next year. Nine Democrats in the Chamber also do not seek re -election to their seats.
