H.R. 8646 passed 213-210 on June 4. It comes in $380 million below last year and, in the Appropriations Committee's own words, reduces salaries and expenses "to account for staffing reductions" — the nearly 4,300 FDA and roughly 900 meat-inspection jobs already gone. 188 members with a page on this site voted yes. Four voted no.
A NOTUS column collected what Republican candidates have been saying about the cost of living. Twelve of them have report cards on this site. Their answers range from 'earn more' to 'the Democrats invented this term affordability.'
The Washington Post found Nazi and KKK images on the X account of a former Mike Collins staffer. He is the fourth person around Collins caught with white nationalist or antisemitic material — and Collins' answer was to attack his Jewish opponent.
Food, rent, electricity, healthcare - in America we should be able to afford these basic necessities of life without going bankrupt.
Mike Collins has supported the current administration's tariffs and other policies which have led to:
Half of all Americans struggling to afford groceries
47% struggling to afford their utility bills
47% struggling to afford healthcare
48% struggling to afford housing
1 in 4 Americans saying they have skipped a medical checkup due to affordability
23% skipping a prescription dose
Gas prices skyrocketing
On February 11, 2026, the House voted 219 to 211 to terminate the national emergency Trump used to impose his tariffs — and Collins voted to keep the tariffs in place, even as they drove up prices on groceries, housing, and farm supplies across Georgia.
We are feeling this directly in our wallets. What is Mike Collins doing about that? Making things worse. We deserve better.
We all deserve access to quality healthcare so we can live healthy and productive lives.
Mike Collins disagrees:
He voted to cut more than $1 trillion in federal health care and food assistance as part of the "One Big Beautiful Bill Act"
He voted to let ACA tax credits expire, increasing health costs for millions of Americans, driving many of them to switch to cheaper plans or abandon health insurance coverage altogether. And the less people there are with coverage, the higher the rest of our premiums will be.
He wants to repeal the ACA, reduce Medicare and Medicaid spending, and add work requirements to Medicaid.
Wants to Gut Medicare, Medicaid, and Social Security
Medicare, Medicaid, and Social Security aren't handouts. They're earned benefits that we pay into out of every single paycheck, our entire working lives, so that we can see a doctor, take care of our parents, and retire with dignity instead of going bankrupt when we get old or sick.
For years, Mike Collins and his party have been quietly laying the groundwork to gut these programs. Now they've said the quiet part out loud.
They admitted the plan. Speaker Mike Johnson told the "Moon Griffon Show" that "entitlement programs like Medicare, Medicaid and things like Social Security ... have to be adjusted and fixed," and that "We have a plan to do that next year ... desperate times call for desperate measures."
We know what the plan looks like. The Republican Study Committee — a caucus of more than 170 House Republicans that includes Speaker Johnson and his top three deputies in leadership — released a budget calling for raising the Social Security retirement age for future retirees and converting Medicare into a privatized "premium support" model that would hand seniors over to for-profit insurance companies.
They already started. The "One Big Beautiful Bill Act" that Mike Collins supported cut roughly $1 trillion from Medicaid to help pay for tax cuts for the richest 1 percent.
Even Republicans admit what "reform" means. Sen. Josh Hawley, on the push to "address" and "reform" these programs: "That's usually code for 'cut.' I'm not in favor of that."
It's a broken promise. Donald Trump pledged in 2024, "I will never do anything that will jeopardize or hurt Social Security or Medicare." Mike Collins and his party are now preparing to do exactly that.
These programs are a promise: work hard, pay in your whole life, and your country will be there for you when you need it. Mike Collins wants to break that promise so he can keep cutting taxes for billionaires. We deserve better.
Cut Taxes for the Rich, While the Rest of Us Pay For It
We all need to pay our fair share to the government so it can provide the services that benefit all of us.
But billionaires in the U.S. pay a smaller tax rate than most teachers and nurses. That's not fair.
The wealthiest 400 billionaire families in the U.S. paid an average federal individual tax rate of just 8.2 percent. For comparison, the average American taxpayer in the same year paid 13 percent.
23 of the largest and most profitable companies in the US paid no federal corporate income taxes from 2018-2022. And 109 corporations paid zero federal tax in at least one of those years.
The "One Big Beautiful Bill Act" that Mike Collins supported will reduce taxes for the top 1 percent of taxpayers by more than $1 trillion over the next decade, while raising taxes for the poorest Americans.
Mike Collins is on the side of the billionaires and big business. We deserve better.
We all deserve clean air, clean water, and a healthy planet to live on.
Mike Collins has supported the repealing and rolling back of environmental protections and climate change regulations, all so that billionaires and big business can plunder natural resources and destroy our environment in the name of profit.
Is Intentionally Wrecking Our Public Schools and Our Kids' Futures
Nine out of ten American children — 49.6 million of them — go to a public school. It's where they learn to read, where they eat breakfast and lunch, where kids with disabilities are guaranteed an education by law, and where a kid from any family, rich or poor, religious or not, gets a fair shot.
Mike Collins and his party are taking that apart on purpose: draining public school money into private and religious schools, pushing one religion into everybody else's classrooms, and shutting down the federal department that is supposed to look out for our kids.
He voted to create the first national private school voucher in American history. It is hidden inside the "One Big Beautiful Bill Act." You give up to $1,700 a year to a charity that hands out private school scholarships, and the government gives you back every penny you gave on your taxes. It costs you nothing — no other tax break in the country works that way. Each person is capped at $1,700, but any number of people can do it, so there is no limit on what it drains from the Treasury. It starts January 1, 2027. Congress's own scorekeepers say $26 billion over ten years; one tax research group says as much as $51 billion every year — more than the government spends on Title I ($18.4 billion) for poor schools and IDEA ($14.6 billion) for kids with disabilities combined. And "low-income" means a family earning three times what a normal family in their area earns still qualifies — in some places, $500,000 a year.
They are giving away our tax dollars to families who are already wealthy and were never in public school to begin with. Every state that has tried it gets the same result — the money goes to people already paying private tuition: 95% of Arkansas voucher users never attended a public school. In Florida's first year of universal vouchers, 69% of new recipients were already in private school and only 13% had ever set foot in a public one. In Iowa, two-thirds were already in private school. We aren't rescuing kids from bad schools — we're cutting checks to families who never needed them, with the money coming out of the schools 90% of our kids actually attend.
And the kids who do switch end up doing worse. Four careful studies found the same thing. In Washington, DC, voucher kids fell behind in math. In Louisiana, a student who started in the middle of the class dropped to the bottom third in math after three years. Indiana and Ohio found the same. Kids with disabilities lost the most.
The money goes to religious schools that can turn our kids away. Ohio now spends nearly $1 billion a year on vouchers, the vast majority going to Catholic and evangelical schools — schools that, unlike public schools, can reject your child over their religion, their disability, or who their parents are, or for ANY REASON AT ALL with almost no accountability for the public money they take. Many have simply raised tuition to capture the vouchers instead of enrolling more students.
Georgia budgeted $141 million for its first voucher year but awarded only $55 million, to about 7,000 of 20,000 applicants. $141 million of Georgia tax money was set aside for private school tuition — for a fraction of a percent of Georgia's children — before a dime of it went to the public schools the other 9 out of 10 attend. Two-thirds of the families who applied got nothing anyway.
Our public schools took generations to build, and they are the one institution that has to take every single child who walks in the door. Mike Collins is helping tear them down and hand the pieces to private interests. Our kids will pay for it for the rest of their lives. We deserve better.
A good job where we can make a living to support our families, own a home, and have a good life. That's the American Dream.
Mike Collins supports policies and an administration that are turning the American Dream into a nightmare.
There were 20.8 million layoffs in the U.S. in 2025
55% of employed Americans say they're concerned about losing their jobs
The unemployment rate is 4.2%
In 2025 the U.S. economy averaged just 15,000 jobs added per month, a dramatic decrease from the monthly average of 125,000 the year before Trump took office.
Overall employment for workers without college degrees fell by 361,000 jobs from January to September 2025.
58,000 net manufacturing jobs have been lost from April, when the administration announced "Liberation Day" tariffs, to September 2025.
Let Elon Musk and DOGE Cut More Than $667 MILLION from Georgia
We all want a government that works for us as efficiently and effectively as possible. Unfortunately our government doesn't always work that way, so reform is badly needed. Given how big and complicated the government is, it's a tough problem that needs well-thought out solutions, so that we don't make things worse.
That's not what we got.
Mike Collins stood idly by while billionaire and ketamine-addled chaos monkey Elon Musk and his DOGE goons chainsawed their way through the U.S. government, promising to save the government at least $2 trillion annually in waste, fraud and abuse. Because they had no idea what they were doing and no one to stop them, in the end our government suffered, people suffered, Georgia suffered, government spending actually went UP and Elon Musk became even richer.
Elon Musk and DOGE:
Had access to and exfiltrated (stole) all our sensitive personal information.
Kneecapped the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, which had returned over $26 billion to the American people since 2011.
Attempted to cut $4 billion in funding for medical research.
Will cost the federal government an estimated $500 billion in lost tax revenue (that could pay for programs for us), due to cuts at the IRS.
Laid waste to the employees at several government departments, removing their top experts and most skilled practitioners, and making their services less effective for all of us. This badly affected veterans, who make up 30% of the federal workforce.
DOGE gutted $334 million in CDC funding from Georgia's Department of Public Health — wiping out vaccine access programs for underserved communities, disease prevention infrastructure, and public health staffing across the state.
We'd like to thank you, Mike Collins, for doing absolutely nothing while an unelected South African big tech billionaire took a chainsaw to vital U.S. government functions and completely failed to make the government more efficient. We deserve better.
As a member of Congress, part of Mike Collins's job is to act as a check and balance to the executive branch. He and his fellow members of Congress from Georgia have completely abdicated their responsibility. These spineless cowards are rubber stamping everything Donald Trump wants to do, no matter how crazy, dangerous or harmful. And we've seen the results. We deserve better.
We deserve to feel safe in our neighborhoods, schools, and places of worship.
In order to do that, we need to take real steps to prevent gun violence. And despite what we've been told, it is possible to support the 2nd Amendment and support common-sense gun safety laws at the same time. But Mike Collins has opposed bipartisan gun safety laws, while offering meaningless thoughts and prayers every time there's a new mass shooting.
A child or adolescent is killed with a gun every 2 hours and 48 minutes in the U.S.
Age-adjusted firearm homicide rates in the U.S. are 33 times greater than in Australia and 77 times greater than in Germany
Every day, 125 Americans are killed with guns, and more than 200 are shot and wounded
Women in the U.S. are 28 times more likely to be killed with a gun than women in other high-income countries.
America is the land of FREEDOM. Freedom of speech, freedom of religion, freedom to start a business, freedom to choose your own career path, freedom to make your own medical decisions, freedom to raise your children according to your values, and freedom to pursue happiness. Freedom is what makes America great.
Unless you're a woman and you're making the deeply personal decision about whether to have a baby or not. A decision that will dramatically affect the rest of your life. In that case Mike Collins thinks that your freedom doesn't matter and that the government should get to control your body. That's not freedom, that's tyranny.
Mike Collins:
Opposed Roe v. Wade
Supported federal efforts to ban abortion
Attacked Planned Parenthood throughout his career
Here in Georgia, the horror of the abortion ban became national news. Adriana Smith, a 30-year-old Atlanta nurse, was declared brain-dead while 9 weeks pregnant — and because of Georgia's fetal "personhood" abortion law, her body was kept on life support for months against her family's wishes until the fetus could be delivered.
Arkansas House of Representatives candidate (and pastor) Robb Ryerse stated it well: "Abortion should remain safe and legal. These are personal decisions best made by patients, their doctors, and their faith — not politicians. You don't have to agree with every decision someone makes to believe they should be free to make it. That's what personal liberty means." Almost 2/3 of Americans agree and believe that abortion should be legal in all or most cases. But Mike Collins thinks he knows better, and doesn't believe that we should have the freedom to make our own decisions. We deserve better.
In America our vote represents our will. It gives us the power to make the change that we want to see in the world.
Unfortunately that's not a sentiment that Mike Collins's billionaire and big business donors can stomach. Because when we have voting power, we use it to make our lives better, and they lose power. Read about all the ways they're trying to take away our voting power on our about page, then come back here.
Mike Collins has opposed legislation to make voting easier while supporting the SAVE Act, which would force every single American citizen to prove their citizenship status in person when registering to vote or updating their voter registration information. For the vast majority of Americans, this would mean presenting a passport or birth certificate at their local election office. This would disenfranchise millions of U.S. citizens: 146 million Americans do not have a passport, and 69 million women who have married do not have a birth certificate that matches their new legal name. Working-class and low-income Americans would also be disproportionately disenfranchised if the bill became law, as the vast majority of these groups do not possess a passport.
YOU HAVE POWER. Why else do you think Mike Collins and his bosses are working so hard to take it away? Don't let them. We deserve better.
Whether white, black, or brown, we should all be able to live in America and exercise our constitutional rights without fear that law enforcement will turn on us.
But the current administration has created a secret police force that is abusing their power against anyone who stands in their way, U.S. citizen or not. They claim to be going after "the worst of the worst", but are taking daycare workers, day laborers, grandmas and kids who are valued members of our communities. And Mike Collins, staunch defender of the Second Amendment to fight back against government tyranny, is doing nothing while the government tyrannizes us.
ProPublica:They describe the legions of masked immigration officers operating in near-total anonymity on the orders of the president as the crossing of a line that had long set the United States apart from the world's most repressive regimes. ICE, in their view, has become an unfettered and unaccountable national police force.
ProPublica:Accosting people outside of their immigration court hearings where they're showing up and trying to do the right thing and then hauling them off to an immigration jail in the middle of the country where they can't access loved ones or speak to counsel. Bands of masked men apprehending people in broad daylight in the streets and hauling them off. Disappearing people to a third country, to a prison where there's a documented record of serious torture and human rights abuse.
New York Times:Masked and heavily armed, ICE agents are sent to cities such as Chicago, Los Angeles and Minneapolis to terrorize immigrant communities and brutalize people who challenge their efforts to stop and detain anyone deemed suspicious. To expand its reach, ICE greatly lowered its recruitment standards, effectively enlisting anyone who cares to sign up. To attract new officers, ICE advertises the chance to do violence to people deemed "enemies" of the United States, likening civil immigration enforcement to a war on a dangerous, alien force. The result is an agency whose agents' first recourse appears to be violence or the threat of violence.
They are executing American citizens. On January 7, 2026 an ICE agent in Minneapolis murdered an American citizen, a mother of 3, by shooting her in the face as she tried to drive away. Then the killer walked away, and our government lied and tried to gaslight us about what happened. Decent politicians condemned the murder. What did Mike Collins have to say? Nothing.
They are executing American citizens: Part 2. On January 24, 2026 ICE agents in Minneapolis murdered an American citizen, a 37 year old ICU nurse, who was filming their activity and trying to help others. Then our government lied and tried to gaslight us about what happened.
And the list of the dead keeps growing. ICE agents — on duty and off — keep killing members of our communities, while Mike Collins says nothing:
On December 31, 2025, an off-duty ICE officer in Northridge, Los Angeles shot and killed Keith Porter Jr., a 43-year-old U.S. citizen and father of two who was born and raised in Compton. Federal officials called it self-defense against an "active shooter," but Porter's family says he was peacefully returning home and never posed a threat — and witnesses reported only three shots, matching his autopsy and contradicting claims of an exchange of gunfire.
On July 7, 2026, an ICE officer in Houston shot and killed Lorenzo Salgado Araujo, a 52-year-old father of three and small-business owner who had lived in the U.S. for 35 years. Agents had been hunting a different white van. Harris County's medical examiner ruled his death a homicide, and his co-workers disputed ICE's claim that he used his vehicle as a weapon.
On July 13, 2026, an ICE agent in Biddeford, Maine shot and killed Joan Sebastian Guerrero, a 26-year-old Colombian father who was legally authorized to work in the U.S. and supported his wife and 3-year-old daughter by delivering food and cleaning a veterinary clinic. He was not the target of ICE's warrant — agents were looking for someone else — and were not wearing body cameras. Even Maine's Republican Senator Susan Collins urged DHS to halt non-urgent vehicle stops in the state.
If ICE can murder innocent U.S. citizens without repercussions, what could they do to you? ICE is out of control and a danger to us all - no one is safe. What's Mike Collins going to do about it? Absolutely nothing. We deserve better.
Voted for the Unnecessary and Unpopular War in Iran
War destroys human lives, families and innocent people, causes economic ruin, and triggers immense suffering. War should always be the option of last resort.
In order to distract from the Epstein Files, Donald Trump started an illegal war of choice with Iran, and now:
We are being dog-walked by Israel, who has been trying to convince presidents to attack Iran forever, and finally found one dumb enough to do so
Pro-Israel PACs, led by AIPAC, have given Mike Collins $20,946.
The American people don't want this war with Iran. But Mike Collins supports this madness and voted against the War Powers Resolution that would have stopped it. Does Mike Collins work for Israel or the people of Georgia? We deserve better.
Avoids His Constituents and Refuses to Hold In-Person Town Halls
Good leaders meet with their constituents and have town halls where citizens can voice concerns, ask questions, and provide input on policies. Mike Collins doesn't want to hear what we have to say. He only wants to talk to his rich donors or people who agree with him.
Mike Collins' office says he has "hosted a town hall nearly every quarter." But in March 2025, when constituents in the 10th District wanted to be heard about federal job losses and the impact of Washington's cuts on their district, more than 300 of them packed a library in Athens for a town hall — without him.
Collins did not attend. Organizers said the questions raised that night would be submitted to his office in Monroe. His office dismissed the event as "a rally hosted by Democrat organizations" and pointed to a town hall held weeks earlier, on February 20.
Georgians deserve a senator who shows up and answers to them directly — not one who hides behind a phone screen.
Mike Collins is avoiding us because he doesn't care what we think. We deserve better.
Took a $920,000 Government Loan — Then Funded His Own Campaign
We should hold our leaders to high standards. Mike Collins apparently does not.
In April 2020, Collins' trucking company received a $920,000 federal PPP loan — money meant to keep 93 workers on the payroll during the pandemic. The federal government forgave it in full, $928,689 with interest.
Collins then lent his own congressional campaign $465,000 ahead of the 2022 primary. His opponent in that primary, Vernon Jones, called it troubling: "It appears as though Mike Collins has used the PPP loans to further his political career."
We deserve leaders who put Georgians first — not ones who take government money for their business and then bankroll their own political careers.
Blamed Foreign Drivers While His Own Truckers Killed 5 People
Mike Collins says noncitizen truckers are making America's roads unsafe — "If you can't read English road signs, you don't belong behind the wheel. Period." But a ProPublica and Atlanta Journal-Constitution investigation found that over the past 25 years, truckers for Collins' own business have been involved in crashes that killed five people and injured more than 50 others — including one woman who now needs around-the-clock care because of a severe brain injury.
ProPublica's analysis of federal data found that Collins' business has a higher rate of unsafe driving and speeding violations per mile than the majority of similar companies. And while his truckers were killing and injuring people, Collins opposed the safety rules that experts say would actually reduce the odds of serious crashes. On requiring speed limiters: "They are called speed limit signs. They are enforced by law enforcement." On automatic emergency braking — which federal officials estimated could prevent more than 8,000 injuries a year — he told a congressional hearing: "People don't understand that these things are actually hurting more than they're helping right now."
Collins warned about the danger of unsafe truckers while his own fleet was killing and injuring families. We deserve better.
Phillips' successor as chief of staff, Kip Talley, was later reported to have been in a group chat with white nationalists Nick Fuentes and Richard Spencer, where he wrote that "I'm going to try and use the levers of the legislative branch" to get an imprisoned far-right associate released.
We deserve a senator who surrounds himself with people of integrity — not one who keeps them on until it becomes politically embarrassing.
Spread the Big Lie and Whitewashed the January 6 Attack
Mike Collins built his political career on Donald Trump's lie that the 2020 election was stolen — and he has spent years trying to rewrite the history of the violent attack it inspired.
We should hold our leaders to high standards. Mike Collins is known for inflammatory posts on social media — and several of them have targeted people for their religion or background.
In March 2024, Collins replied "Never was a second thought" to a post attacking Washington Post journalist Maura Judkis that flagged her Jewish identity. Facing backlash, he refused to apologize and blamed his critics: "Y'all just see stuff that ain't there."
In January 2025, Collins said Episcopal Bishop Mariann Budde should be deported after she asked President Trump to show mercy to immigrants and LGBTQ children.
In July 2024, after the assassination attempt on Trump in Butler, Pennsylvania, Collins claimed without evidence that Joe Biden "sent the orders" for the shooting, and said the county district attorney should "immediately file charges against Joseph R. Biden for inciting an assassination."
We deserve a senator who treats all Georgians with respect.
In November 2025, Collins' campaign released a deepfake video of Senator Jon Ossoff — AI-generated audio of Ossoff defending a government shutdown and mocking farmers by saying he had "only seen a farm on Instagram." Ossoff never said any of it.
When called out, the Collins campaign didn't apologize. It said it would "be at the forefront embracing new tactics and strategies" as technology evolves.
If a candidate has to put fake words in his opponent's mouth, what does that tell you about his real case? We deserve better.
Only once Trump relented did Mike Collins vote for the Epstein Files Transparency Act on November 18, 2025 — a bill that passed 427 to 1. When releasing the files cost him nothing, he was happy to go along. When it counted, he protected the powerful.
We're all going to pay the price for this with increased rates of asthma, cancer, and premature deaths. We deserve better.
