Ricketts responds to U.S. Treasury inquiry about Nebraska’s rental support application

LINCOLN, Neb. (WOWT) – Touting Nebraska’s strides in financial restoration from the COVID-19 pandemic, Gov. Pete Ricketts despatched a response to the U.S. Treasury Division on Friday detailing why the state was declining the second round of crisis rental guidance.

“Nebraska’s economic climate is executing well,” Ricketts explained in the letter, noting cash reserves, small unemployment, Politico’s current accolade for the state’s COVID-19 response, as very well as a very similar nod from the National Bureau for Financial Investigate. “…our adult men and girls have work, and our small children are taken care of… This is, in section, thanks to dependable (state) federal government paying.”

Ricketts vetoed the Unicameral’s ask for for Nebraska’s software for the ERAP resources 2 times.

The governor mentioned he did not truly feel compelled to request the 2nd spherical since he hadn’t been offered with any information from “housing advocates” indicating the support was essential.

“For months, I have invited these teams to present me with any facts demonstrating there remains a pandemic-relevant require for these money,” he says in the letter.

Ricketts also took the chance to criticize the Biden administration’s stimulus plan, highlighting current inflation amounts, and said it was all the much more motive for Nebraska not to acknowledge the resources.

“Flooding the economic climate with approximately two trillion pounds of stimulus revenue and incentivizing individuals to count on the governing administration not only exacerbates the problems we face as a country. It would be irresponsible of me as governor to consider federal dollars that we do not need to have and insert to this escalating trouble,” he explained in the letter.

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