Ben Sasse is a fifth-generation Nebraskan with the honor of representing the Cornhusker state in the U.S. Senate. Having never run for anything before, he and his family campaigned tirelessly in a rickety old campaign bus in 2013 and 2014, ultimately winning all of Nebraska's 93 counties in one of the biggest landslides in state history.
After deciding with his family to run for re-election in 2020, Ben set a record, earning the most votes in the history of Nebraska — again winning all 93 counties.
Nebraskans lead the world in agricultural production and innovation. Our state’s economy depends on agriculture and our farmers and ranchers depend on certainty from Washington and deserve smarter farm policies that put agriculture ahead of red tape.
Government doesn’t grow the economy; the private sector does. It’s time for comprehensive tax reform that simplifies the tax code by eliminating special-interest loopholes and lowering taxes on individuals and business. In addition to tax relief, eliminating burdensome rules and regulations will help to unleash America’s economic potential, and help the next generation recover a sense of optimism about the American Dream for everyone of every race in every neighborhood.
We have a moral obligation to pass along a country as great and free and opportunity-filled to the next generation as we were blessed to inherit from our grandparents. This will require a more serious Congress, committed to reforming entitlements and telling the truth about fake federal budgets. We need to have a long-term conversation about actually dealing with all the structural insolvency in our entitlement programs.
It is imperative that we modernize national security for the age of global terror networks. We must strengthen American leadership throughout the world. The primary duty of the federal government is to afford protection to its citizens, and our legislative choices should reflect that.
To expand access and lower costs for health care, it’s time to modernize the way we deliver health care in our country. We need greater portability and flexibility in our health care structure.
Loving America doesn’t mean you need to think that Washington has all the answers. It’s time to reduce the size and scope of the federal government.
Washington needs to do fewer things but tackle our most important challenges with greater urgency and more transparency. Healthy lives are lived primarily in the private sector, and the vast majority of good policy is created at the state and local level -- and Washington should get better at talking honestly about these essential American realities.
The family is the most basic unit of civilization, and the heart of our society. Senator Sasse supports the right to life, the sanctity of marriage, and the right of families to choose how to educate their children.