Don Bacon

Republican · NE-2 · U.S. House

Bio

Donald John Bacon is an American politician and retired military officer who has served as the U.S. representative for Nebraska's 2nd congressional district since 2017. During his 29 years in the United States Air Force, he commanded wings at Ramstein Air Base, Germany, and Offutt Air Force Base south of Omaha, Nebraska, before retiring as a brigadier general in 2014. A member of the Republican Party, his district includes all of Omaha and the areas surrounding the Offutt base.

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Record of service

In office: 9.6 years
First took office: 2017 (5 terms)
Seniority: 173 of 437 by time served
Age: 63

District offices

Omaha, NE · 402-938-0300
Wahoo, NE · 402-607-0077

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Service history, offices and identifiers from unitedstates/congress-legislators (public domain). Years served sum each term rather than subtracting the first start date, so a break in service is not counted as time in office.

Reported net worth

2019

$713k

2020

$713k

2021

−$2.0M

2022

−$1.4M

2023

−$1.7M

2024

$924k

2025

$1.1M

Most recent filing (2025)

Assets: $1.1M – $2.6M
Liabilities: $500k – $1.0M
Net worth: $82k – $2.1M
Since 2019: +$381k

Largest holdings in the 2025 filing · 34 assets reported

Hay Field$250k – $500k

LPL Financial ⇒ WLGAX Delaware Ivy Large Cap Growth Cl A$250k – $500k

Prudential PruLife UL Protector ⇒ Prudential Life Insurance (Universal)$250k – $500k

Athene Life Insurance (Whole)$50k – $100k

Fidelity IRA Rollover ⇒ iShares Core S&P 500 ETF (IVV)$50k – $100k

Franklin Mutual Shares fund - Class A ⇒ Franklin Mutual Shares Fund--Class A$50k – $100k

Athene Life Insurance (Whole)$15k – $50k

COBALT Federal Credit Union$15k – $50k

US Bank Savings Account$15k – $50k

Fidelity IRA Rollover ⇒ iShares Core S&P 500 ETF (IVV)$15k – $50k

Fidelity IRA Rollover ⇒ Schwab International Equity ETF (SCHF)$15k – $50k

Fidelity IRA Rollover ⇒ State Street SPDR Portfolio S&P 500 Value ETF (SPYV)$15k – $50k

Fidelity IRA Rollover ⇒ Stepstone Private Markets Class I (XPMIX)$15k – $50k

Fidelity IRA Rollover ⇒ Vanguard Growth ETF (VUG)$15k – $50k

Principle ⇒ Principle Investments (Prin Life Time 2030 Inst Fund)$15k – $50k

US Bank Savings Account$1k – $15k

Fidelity IRA Rollover ⇒ Blue Owl Technology Fin Corp Note 6.12500% 01/23/2031 Call Make Wh$1k – $15k

Fidelity IRA Rollover ⇒ Carlyle Secured Lending Inc Note 6.75000% 02/18/2030 Call Make Who$1k – $15k

Fidelity IRA Rollover ⇒ Oaktree Specialty Lending Note 6.34000% 02/27/2030 Call Make Whole$1k – $15k

Fidelity IRA Rollover ⇒ Schwab Emerging Markets Equity ETF (SCHE)$1k – $15k

Fidelity IRA Rollover ⇒ Schwab International Small-Cap Equity ETF (SCHC)$1k – $15k

Fidelity IRA Rollover ⇒ Schwab U.S. Mid Cap ETF (SCHM)$1k – $15k

Fidelity IRA Rollover ⇒ State Street SPDR Portfolio S&P 500 Value ETF (SPYV)$1k – $15k

Fidelity IRA Rollover ⇒ State Street SPDR S&P 600 Small Cap Growth ETF (SLYG)$1k – $15k

Fidelity IRA Rollover ⇒ State Street SPDR S&P 600 Small Cap Value ETF (SLYV)$1k – $15k

Fidelity IRA Rollover ⇒ Trinity Cap Inc Note Call Make Whole 7.00000% 505/21/2031$1k – $15k

Fidelity IRA Rollover ⇒ Vanguard Mid-Cap Value ETF (VOE)$1k – $15k

Largest first, capped at 40 line items. Each is the asset's reported value bracket, not the income it produced.

From annual financial disclosures, which report every asset and debt as a bracket — so these are ranges, and the figure shown is their midpoint. A primary residence is not a reportable asset while its mortgage is a reportable debt, which pushes some members negative. How this is calculated →

Overall lean (DW-NOMINATE)

LeftCenterRight

Issue profile

Taxes & Fiscal

R+0.76

Healthcare

R+0.67

Immigration & Border

R+0.83

Guns

R+0.85

Abortion & Reproductive Rights

R+1.00

Environment & Energy

R+0.77

Crime & Policing

R+0.82

Defense & Veterans

R+0.75

Economy & Labor

R+0.75

Foreign Policy & Trade

R+0.70

Civil Rights & Social

D+0.01

Education

R+0.69

Government & Democracy

R+0.82

Judicial & Executive Nominations

R+1.00

Each issue runs left ↔ right, scored from how the member voted on bills tagged to that issue (−1…+1). Issues with too few votes are blank. Overall lean uses DW-NOMINATE.

How they score against the parties

Don Bacon's voting record compared with each party's national platform, issue by issue — the same similarity score used across the site.

91%Closest

66%

31%

21%

Democratic Socialists (DSA)

18%

Communist Party USA

16%

On the political map

Don Bacon (the large ringed dot) among every current member of Congress and the party platforms.

Party platforms:Communist Party USADemocratic Socialists (DSA)Green PartyDemocratic PartyRepublican PartyLibertarian Party

Each small dot is a current member (Dem · Rep); the larger dots are party platforms — click one for its closest members. Economic axis: taxes, healthcare, labor, energy. Social axis: abortion, guns, immigration, civil rights, crime.

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Caucuses & committees

Where Baconsits in Congress's own organization — each group's lean is computed from its members' voting records. Explore them all on the caucuses and committees pages.

Caucuses

Problem Solvers Caucuscenter · 46 members
Republican Governance Groupstrongly right · 44 members
Republican Study Committeestrongly right · 139 members

Committees

House Committee on Agriculturecenter · 53 members
Livestock, Dairy, and Poultry Conservation, Research, and Biotechnology
House Committee on Armed Servicescenter · 57 members
Strategic Forces Cyber, Information Technologies, and Innovation (Chairman)

Most and least aligned members

Treating Bacon's 14 issue scores as a vector, cosine similarity measures whether two voting records point the same way (+100%) or in opposite directions (−100%) — the colleagues whose records align most and least with theirs.