Nebraska Gov. Jim Pillen talking in front of U.S. Reps. Adrian Smith and Mike Flood at St. Teresa Catholic School in Lincoln on Sep. 29, 2025. (Juan Salinas II/Nebraska Examiner)

LINCOLN — Nebraska Gov. Jim Pillen and U.S. Reps. Adrian Smith and Mike Flood took a political victory lap Monday with a group of K-12 students at the capital city’s St. Teresa Catholic School.

The group marked the day Pillen opted Nebraska into a federal school choice tax credit program that the state’s GOP members of Congress helped make sure was included in President Donald Trump’s tax and budget bill that passed earlier this summer.

Nebraska is one of the first states nationally to join the federal voucher program, and other states are likely to follow suit.

“Let me just make it really clear … I am not opt

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