Multi-Millionaire GOP Congress Member Mike Flood– “Many Americans Will Suffer Pain With ‘Team Red’ Budget Cuts” February 10, 2025
Far too many Americans voted for “populist (NOT)” Demagogue Donald because he gave them the false impression that he would make the economy better and he could do that easily without making them suffer much pain. Once again, let’s not mince words– Donald is a first-class liar who will stick it to 99% of the American people, helping only the top 1%. On February 6, 2025, Donald met with his fellow “Team Red” House cult members. He told them of his plans to cut taxes for the rich. According to the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget (CRFB), a non-profit that seeks to reduce the federal budget deficit, Trump’s tax proposal could cost as much as $11 trillion over the next 10 years. This gigantic number, the CRFB noted, would make the debt at least 132% of the U.S.’s gross domestic product. Under the procedural mechanism GOPers want to use, this legislation requires Republicans to offset these “ y uu ge” tax cuts with massive amounts of cuts elsewhere in the federal budget.
Many GOP lawmakers are admitting that the cuts they make will be painful to the American people. And what are these proposed painful cuts the GOP ers are eyeing? “Team Red” members have been pushing for deeply slashing Medicaid. Medicaid insures more than 72 million low-income Americans or more than 20% of the U.S. population. GOPers are looking at axing tax breaks that have made child care and education more affordable. Major cuts to food stamps are additionally being considered as well as taxing scholarship money. The GOP is additionally thinking of curtailing employer transportation benefits that make commuting more affordable.
In a February 6, 2025 interview with Bloomberg, GOP Cong. Mike Flood said that the Republican forthcoming budget that will be used to pass Trump’s tax-cut agenda “will be littered with a collection of ideas, some of which Americans are going to really not be for, but hey, if we don’t sacrifice, if we don’t understand that this is going to be a painful process, nothing’s going to change.” Rep. Flood added, “My message to the American people is: We as a nation, as Americans, have to recognize that this is such a big problem– our debt– that we’re going to have to say no to some programs that we like but we simply can’t afford.” Who is this Cong. Flood, and what does he know about “sacrificing” and “pain?”
Second-term GOP Cong. Mike Flood (49) currently represents Nebraska’s 1st Congressional District (CD). The NE 1st is centered around the Cornhusker State’s capital, Lincoln. Half of the NE 1st takes up Lancaster County, home to Lincoln and includes the main campus of the University of Nebraska. This university has many scientific units that receive large research grants. In the 1st’s smaller towns, there are many farm equipment and meatpacking factories. The NE 1st surrounds but does not take in Omaha-based Douglas County. The 1st, however, does include the eastern part of fast-growing Sarpy County and the city of Bellevue, where Offutt Air Force Base, headquarters of the Strategic Air Command, is located.
The Cornhusker 1st was settled by Midwestern Yankee farmers. They were joined by immigrants from Germany, and many people from Luxembourg as well as Czechs and Swedes. Today, immigrants to the 1st have included Latinos who have come to work in that area’s meatpacking factories. Vietnamese refugees have come to Lincoln as well. There is some anti-immigrant tension in the 1st. The town of Fremont and some other towns have passed ordinances mandating immigration background checks for anyone seeking to rent a house or apartment.
Politically, Lincoln can favor moderate Democrats, but on balance, is Republican in national elections. Although Lancaster, home to Lincoln, along with Douglas County, home to Omaha, were the only two counties in deep “Red” Nebraska to vote for Biden in 2020, no Democrat has been elected to Congress in the Lincoln Cornhusker 1st since 1964. Donald handily won the 1st CD, by an 11-point margin in 2020, 54%-43%, going down a mere four points from his 15-point 2016 win, 56%-41%. After the 2022 redistricting, the 1st gained some Democratic-leaning areas, but had to give up exurban counties north and south of Omaha. In 2024, Trump, again, easily won this district by 13 percentage points, 55.8% v 42.8%. The 1st’s most recent Cook Partisan Voting Index (PVI) is a comfortable R+9 score.
Omaha native Mike Flood was raised in Norfolk, NE. A graduate of Norfolk Catholic High School, Flood obtained a 1997 BA from the University of Notre Dame and a 2001 law degree from the University of Nebraska College of Law. While a Notre Dame undergraduate, Flood hosted a campus radio show. While in law school in NE, Flood launched his own radio station. That station eventually led to Flood Communications that included the News Channel Nebraska, that state’s first 24-hour news station. Flood later sold part of his broadcast network of 15 radio stations and 5 television stations, according to the 2022 Cohen and Cook Political Almanac. In 2004, when he was 29, Flood won an open seat in the unicameral NE state legislature. Two years later, he was elected Speaker. He served in the state legislature from 2005-2013 and was Speaker for six years (2007-2013). In the NE legislature, Flood took credit for tax cuts, preserving the death penalty by lethal injection, approval of the Keystone XL pipeline, and protection of concealed-carry gun rights. He was an outspoken foe of abortion rights. In the NE legislature, Flood introduced and was instrumental in passing the Pain-Capable Unborn Child Protection Act, the nation’s first 20-week abortion ban. In a state obsessed with Husker football, Flood represented that team’s football players and their families. He successfully forced the Big Ten Conference to reverse their decision to cancel the football season because of the COVID pandemic.
In January, 2022, Flood announced that he would run for the U.S. House in a special election after GOP Cong. Jeff Fortenberry resigned following felony convictions. He attacked Pres. Biden as “an inept president” and stated that Democrats were “ramming through a radical socialist agenda,” themes that resonated well in “Red” Nebraska. He won the special election by 6 points, but handily won the Nov. general election against the same Democratic rival who was pro-choice and pro-gay rights by 16 points. In the House, Cong. Flood voted against Biden’s key 2022 Inflation and Reduction Act. He voted for aid to Ukraine and Israel who were both fighting aggressors, Russia and Hamas respectively. He is a member of the Republican Study Committee, the largest and most influential House GOP bloc. He won his second term by taking 58% of the vote. He currently sits on the key Financial Services Committee, as the CQ118th Congress handbook notes. In 2024, Flood had been pursued to serve as President of the University of Nebraska system, but declined the job because he wanted to stay in Congress.
Cong. Flood talks about the American people having to “sacrifice” and accept cutting programs they like so that a regressive tax cut plan can be passed. “Cong. Flood” and “sacrifice” are, frankly, oxymorons. Flood will not be one to ever feel the pain of “sacrifice.” He has a net worth of at least $7, 800, 000 according to the Congress Trading site. He will be a loyal follower of Demagogue Donald’s agenda and will not be one to attack Trump and his co-presidential buddy Elon Musk’s tearing down our basic institutions and key social and economic programs. Flood will have no problem being continually elected in deep “Red” Nebraska and his Lincoln 1st district. In order to keep him irrelevant, I repeat, once again, Democrats can’t stay home in 2026 as they foolishly did in 2024. We need just a net gain of 3 seats to take back the House and make competent leader Hakeem Jeffries our new Speaker.
