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Government-shutdown follow-up received October 1, 2026.
Government shutdown and cooperation
- Yes I oppose any government shutdown. Especially if it leaves civilians and our military personnel paying the consequences. We the people are not pawns to be played with in a game for politicians to get their way. As a Libertarian, I'm not playing. I'm trying to stop it. I'd work with the administration as an honest broker. Voting for clean funding bills while refusing the riders that caused standoff, and if a shutdown happens anyway, I'd push a permanent "Pay our Military" act. The same bill Don Bacon co-sponsored in 2025 to guarantee service members, military families, and veterans never miss a paycheck.
Earlier answers received September 28, 2026. The candidate’s original wording is retained below.
Background and the Offutt community
- I am not a career politician. I work in property management and maintenance in Omaha. Military service is in my family. I have lost loved ones to wars that never should have been fought, and to suicide after they came home. Support for the force, the family, and the veteran is the job.
- Nebraska’s 2nd District is Douglas County, Saunders County, and western Sarpy County. Offutt Air Force Base sits next door in Bellevue, in the 1st District. Offutt families still live, work, rent, and use doctors and schools across this metro, including Omaha. The Base maybe outside my district lines, but I won't pretend those families are someone else’s problem.
Pay and BAH
- Junior enlisted families in the Omaha–Offutt housing market are underwater when rent outruns the tables written in Washington. Pay and BAH must match what housing actually costs here, not a national average that leaves families in the worst off-base stock.
Healthcare
- Enforce the TRICARE clocks that already exist: urgent care in 24 hours, routine primary care in 7 days, specialty care in 28 days. If the network misses the clock, the spouse or child goes out of network. A permanent change of station (PCS) — a move to a new duty station — is not a reason to start over at the back of the line.
Childcare
- Childcare is readiness. Seats and fee assistance should be treated like a mission requirement. Vacancies should be publicly available.
Spouse employment and frequent moves
- The spouse’s license should follow the orders. A PCS should not erase a career.
- The military will always move people. It does not have to move them as often, or as suddenly, as it does. Fewer and shorter unnecessary PCS cycles support the family and retention.
- I will take these questions in person in this district, including with Offutt-area families who live here.
Veterans’ care
- The rule. If VA cannot meet its own access standards, community care is the default. Those standards are already law: 20 days (or a 30-minute drive) for primary care and mental health; 28 days (or a 60-minute drive) for specialty care. The veteran should not have to beg or sit through a second approval while the clock runs.
- The promise. VA health, disability compensation, and the earned education benefit are promises already paid for in service. I will keep the promise. I will change the delivery. Same obligation. Less waiting room. VA when it works. Community care when it does not.
Mental health
- People living with PTSD, trauma, depression, addiction, and treatment-resistant conditions are stuck in outdated systems. Patients, doctors, and researchers should have faster access to evidence-based and emerging treatments, with transparency and informed consent. Suicide after service is not theoretical in my community. It's a Mission failure.
Transition to civilian life
- The handoff home should be a cushion of dependability and assurance. They sacrificed so much. They should be able to expect to see a doctor, have a roof over their head and their family's, a job that's sees & wants their skills as assets, not bogged down with red tape, unnecessary bureaucracy and websites.
Family housing
- I work in property management and maintenance. I know what deferred repairs look like. When a unit is unsafe, be mold, sewage issues, no heat/AC, failed inspections!! Fire the contractor. Temporary lodging is a government cost, all the government's money is your money. Lets not make it the family’s punishment. No retaliation for reporting the housing. Privatized housing that cannot keep people safe should lose the contract. BAH that does not buy a livable unit in this metro, makes it a dishonest number.
Funding and oversight
- I want an honest, smaller federal budget. Cut endless wars, waste, and fraud first. Do not stiff the people who already served. Care for those who served is a core federal job. Delivery can change. The debt to them does not.
- Oversight is in releasing the numbers to the public. Publish the Long wait times, housing complaints, inspection failures, contractor names, and list the fraud recovered. I will always hold in-person town halls in this district. Never phone-in substitute. You deserve to see your employee face to face.
Service and accountability
- I have no House vote record yet, and opposition to endless wars is not opposition to the military, military families, or veterans.