In a move that had been planned, Republican Ben Sasse stepped down from his position as a U.S. Senator over the weekend.
Sasse was just two years into a six-year term representing Nebraska.
During his tenure, Sasse was often loudly critical of former President Donald Trump, despite his position as a conservative.
During his farewell remarks at the Capitol, the 50-year-old veteran politician voiced his disillusionment with Washington.
“This institution doesn’t work very well right now,” he said. “Each of us knows we should be taking a look in the mirror and acknowledging that lives lived in a politicized echo chamber are unworthy of a place that calls itself a deliberative body, let alone the world’s greatest deliberative body.
“When we’re being honest with each other, which usually means when on one of the very rare occasions where cameras aren’t present, we all know that a big chunk of the performative yelling that happens here and in every hearing room is just about being booked for even more performative yelling at night on TV,” he added.
Sasse is leaving the political spotlight to take over as president at the University of Florida. Before becoming a senator, Sasse had been the head of Midland University in Nebraska.
As for the four years remaining on Sasse's term, his U.S. Senate seat will be filled by appointment of an interim senator by Nebraska's Republican governor Jim Pillen.
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