Republican Sen. Ben Sasse expected to resign from Congress

WASHINGTON  Sen. Ben Sasse, R-Neb., who frequently clashed with former President Donald Trump but won a second term in 2020, is expected to resign before the end of the year, a source familiar with the move confirmed to NBC News on Thursday.

Sasse is expected to exit the Senate to take a new job leading the University of Florida, the source said. The senator and the university confirmed that Sasse is in talks for the top job there after news broke on Thursday.

The news was first reported by KFAB talk radio host Ian Swanson, a former Sasse staffer, who opened his show Thursday by announcing that his former boss would soon be resigning to take a job in academia.

via www.nbcnews.com

Sasse will be making a *lot* more money as a university president than as a US Senator, that’s for sure. And it’s an exciting opportunity for a guy like him. Good luck to him. What shall we call him? Chief Gator? Something with Gator in it. Does UF get all the Gatorade money? That would a be a ton.