LINCOLN- During the final days of his first year in Congress, U.S. Rep. Mike Flood, R-Neb., landed in the middle of a global fight over an island nation’s existence. The former state senator from Norfolk said he expected to face complex new issues when he left Lincoln. The scope of the federal government and its challenges forced him to learn quickly, he said.

Flood joined a delegation to Taiwan this month, as China discusses reunifying the island by force. Americans should care about the issue, Flood said, because most of the world’s microchips in consumer goods from refrigerators to cars come from China or Taiwan. “If we thought Ukraine was essential to protect, Taiwan takes it to the next level because it will impact every American’s ability to live their lives the way we do today,” Flood said.

He pointed to debt ceiling negotiations as a crash course on how Congress works and said he was proud Republicans secured $2.1 trillion in spending cuts from the federal budget. “It took a lot of work and I’m very pleased,” he said. Flood said he will focus his second year in Congress on constituent services, taxes, national defense and cutting spending. He also wants to help shore up the banking system, which wobbled a bit after a Silicon Valley shakeup.

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