Governor Jim Pillen joined President Trump at the White House on Friday to announce the Rural Health Transformation Program, a $50 billion initiative established under the Trump Administration’s Working Families Tax Cuts legislation to strengthen and modernize health care in rural communities. Appearing on C-Span during the event Pillen said, Nebraska rural health care will benefit from the plan.
“Mr. President, a gigantic thank you and thank you for your incredible leadership,” Pillen said. “Your courage gives me more courage to say it the way it is. We are working very hard in Nebraska to run government like a business. This plan will allow us to do common sense pragmatic investments in rural Nebraska and they will be sustainable. We will make sure we will not need another dollar after five years.”Â
According to a news release from Pillen’s office, through the initiative, the state of Nebraska will receive over $218 million for the first year of the five-year grant from the federal government.
