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 both 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 opting this in … I am cannonballing it into the state of Nebraska,” Pillen said to claps from kids and parents. Pillen and other supporters of school choice in Nebraska needed the assistance of the Trump administration after the state’s voters overturned legislative efforts to create a voucher program of the state’s own. Pillen and state lawmakers have pledged to keep trying to pass a state replacement.

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