Four of Mike Kelly's car dealerships got pandemic loans in the first two weeks of the program. In May 2020 he voted against a bill making the government publish who got the money. All $974,100 was later wiped out — $987,237 with interest. He calls student debt relief a 'handout.'
The day after Kelly learned the Butler steel plant would be saved, his wife bought 5,000 shares of the company. Eight months later she cashed out for a $64,476 profit. The House Ethics Committee voted unanimously to reprove him — not for the trade, but for how he answered questions about it.
At a county GOP dinner in March 2017, Pennsylvania's Mike Kelly said Barack Obama stayed in Washington for one reason: to secretly sabotage Donald Trump. He gave the real reason in the same breath. Then his office walked it back twice in one day.
Pennsylvania farmers exported more than $400 million of soybeans and corn, and the trade war put those buyers at risk while fertilizer, fuel and equipment costs climbed. As one Lawrence County farmer put it: "It's putting a tremendous burden and stress on family farms."
Kelly — who owns five car dealerships — knew what Trump's auto tariffs would do to car prices. POLITICO put the studies' estimates at $6,400 or even $10,000 per car; Kelly's own prediction was "There'll be a shock." He backed the tariffs anyway, calling them "a huge wake-up call."
When constituents stop him at the grocery store to complain about the price of eggs and beef, Kelly's answer is a shrug: "We don't control markets."
We are feeling this directly in our wallets. What is Mike Kelly 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 Kelly 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.
An estimated 300,000 Pennsylvanians are projected to lose Medicaid coverage under Trump's budget bill.
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 Kelly 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 Kelly 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 Kelly 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 Kelly wants to break that promise so he can keep cutting taxes for billionaires. We deserve better.
Cut Taxes for the Rich, While Making 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.
Kelly didn't just vote for Trump's tax giveaway to the wealthy — as Chairman of the Ways and Means Subcommittee on Tax, he ran the ten "Tax Teams" that drew up the bill. Then he sold it. In an op-ed for the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review, Kelly brushed off critics who say the law takes from lower-income Americans to subsidize the rich by quoting A Few Good Men — some in Washington "can't handle the truth" — and insisted the same bill "strengthens the future of Medicaid."
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 Kelly 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 Kelly 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 Kelly 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 Kelly 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.
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 Kelly 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 Kelly 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.
Works for Billionaires, Big Business & Special Interests and Not for Us
Our elected officials should work for us, the people.
Mike Kelly is a car dealer who writes the tax code for car dealers. He owns Pennsylvania auto dealerships, and he chairs the Ways and Means Tax Subcommittee — and the National Automobile Dealers Association and the Automotive Free International Trade PAC are both among his largest backers. Only 1% of his money came from small grassroots donors, and he ranks #385 out of 440 House members in grassroots funding — he is funded by big money, not by us. Look at who some of his top funders are:
The auto industry he still belongs to: the National Automobile Dealers Association ($35,000) and the Automotive Free International Trade PAC ($35,000), to the chairman of the tax subcommittee
The National Association of Insurance and Financial Advisors — $37,000, from an industry his own committee's tax code governs
The National Beer Wholesalers Association — $35,000, also before Ways and Means
National Fuel Gas — $37,000 from the Pennsylvania gas utility
Marathon Petroleum — $36,000
The National Rural Electric Cooperative Association — $36,000
Comcast — $35,000
The National Multifamily Housing Council — $35,000, the apartment landlords' lobby
DaVita, the dialysis company, whose Medicare payments run through his committee
Pro-Israel PACs, led by AIPAC — $50,545
Mike Kelly is funded by billionaires, big business and special interests. No wonder he's not doing anything to improve OUR lives. We deserve better.
Let Elon Musk and DOGE Cut More Than $1.1 BILLION from Pennsylvania
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 Kelly 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, Pennsylvania 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.
In Philadelphia alone, roughly $278 million in federal grants and contracts was suspended, cancelled or terminated — including $40 million in city public health grants for immunizations and disease control, and an $8 million cut to the Share Food Program, which said it would reduce the food coming into its warehouse by about 20%.
We'd like to thank you, Mike Kelly, 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 Kelly's job is to act as a check and balance to the executive branch. He and his fellow members of Congress from Pennsylvania 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.
Kelly is not just rubber-stamping Trump's agenda — he is writing the legislation. He voted for the One Big Beautiful Bill Act as Chairman of the Ways & Means Subcommittee on Tax, the panel with jurisdiction over the bill's tax title, and called it "historic investments in Western Pennsylvania."
Protected Pedophiles by Blocking Release of the Epstein Files
Jeffrey Epstein ran a global sex trafficking network that sexually abused dozens of girls and women for decades. The FBI identified at least 35 minors with similar abuse histories. When finally released in 2026, the files — over 3 million pages, 2,000 videos, and 180,000 images — revealed what UN human rights experts called "disturbing and credible evidence" of a possible global criminal enterprise. Those experts said some of the conduct may meet the threshold for crimes against humanity, including sexual slavery, torture, and enforced disappearance.
For months, House Republican leadership blocked every vote to release these files — and Mike Kelly went along.
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 Kelly 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 Kelly 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 Kelly:
Opposed Roe v. Wade
Supported federal efforts to ban abortion
Attacked Planned Parenthood throughout his career
Introduced the Heartbeat Protection Act, which would subject any doctor who performs an abortion after a fetal heartbeat is detected to criminal penalties — and reintroduced it in January 2025
Signed the congressional amicus brief urging the Supreme Court to overturn Roe v. Wade in Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health Organization, saying on his own website that he was "proud to be a signer"
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 Kelly 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 Kelly'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 Kelly 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 Kelly 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 Kelly, 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 Kelly 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 Kelly 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 Kelly 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 Kelly $50,545.
The American people don't want this war with Iran. But Mike Kelly supports this madness and voted against the War Powers Resolution that would have stopped it. Does Mike Kelly work for Israel or the people of Pennsylvania? 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 Kelly 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.
Has not held an in-person, open-floor town hall in Erie County since 2011 — his first year in Congress. His last in-person town hall of any kind there was in 2015, on veterans' issues. Of the roughly 35 town halls he has held since being elected, nearly 30 were over the telephone and dealt only with narrow topics like tax filing and Medicare open enrollment
Those telephone town halls are screened, and his own staff describes how. A caller who wants to ask something must first press a button that connects them to a Kelly staffer or the phone vendor and say what their question is about before they are put through to the congressman. "Traditionally speaking, if a question is not relevant to the topic of the town hall, it is followed up with after and not asked during the town hall," his district director, Melanie Brewer, told the Erie Times-News. She said the format offers a "higher return on investment" because constituents "actually get their questions answered, as opposed to being drowned out by the loudest voice in the room"
Prefer to meet him in person? In March 2025 Brewer said his district time was one day per county per month and appointments were "booked out until July."
In March 2025, about 300 people gathered in Perry Square in downtown Erie to demand he show up and take their questions. "We are angry over (Kelly's) insistence that carefully controlled pre-screened, so-called tele-town halls are somehow a sufficient means by which the citizens of this district can exercise their sacred American right of free speech," said Chris Magoc, a retired Mercyhurst University professor who spoke at the protest. "You can't phone this job in. Tele-town halls won't do."
This is a long-standing habit. In 2018, a group of Erie-area high school students asked Kelly to hold a public town hall on guns and school safety. His office rejected the request repeatedly, and the students were left to accept a private meeting instead. "We wanted our representative to have a public town hall so more people could hear him on this issue, and he said no, limiting the number of participants," one of them, Erin Fleming, told the Erie Times-News. "It is frustrating"
He can pack a room when the topic is one he chose himself. In April 2024 he held a standing-room-only public town hall at Butler County Community College — 525 people — alongside company and union officials, to oppose an Energy Department rule that threatened jobs at the Cleveland-Cliffs Butler Works plant. He has the format available to him. He just doesn't use it when the questions would be ours
Mike Kelly is avoiding us because he doesn't care what we think. We deserve better.
Hates Democracy and Tried to Steal the 2020 Election
After Joe Biden was declared the winner of the 2020 presidential election, Mike Kelly did not just go along with the Big Lie — he went to court to try to steal the election. He:
Filed Kelly v. Pennsylvania — a lawsuit asking the courts to throw out every one of the roughly 2.6 million ballots Pennsylvanians cast by mail, or else to void the entire election and let the Republican-controlled legislature pick the winner. He alleged no fraud. The Pennsylvania Supreme Court threw it out unanimously on November 28, 2020, with Justice David Wecht writing that courts should not "lend legitimacy to such transparent and untimely efforts to subvert the will of Pennsylvania voters." The U.S. Supreme Court refused to hear it
Signed an amicus brief in Texas v. Pennsylvania urging the Supreme Court to overturn the election results in Pennsylvania, Georgia, Michigan, and Wisconsin
Was named by U.S. Sen. Ron Johnson's office as the source of the fake-elector paperwork that Johnson's staff tried to hand to Vice President Mike Pence on January 6 — specifically Kelly's then-chief of staff, Matt Stroia. Kelly's office ran an internal review and said Kelly was "unaware" of Stroia's reported actions; Johnson's spokeswoman called that a "non-denial 'denial'"
Pushed an Obama 'Shadow Government' Conspiracy Theory
Kelly's willingness to overturn an election didn't come out of nowhere — he has a long habit of trafficking in conspiracy theories. On March 4, 2017, speaking to a crowd in his northwestern Pennsylvania district, he claimed that former President Barack Obama had stayed in Washington for one reason: to secretly sabotage Donald Trump.
Once the remarks made national news, Kelly withdrew them and his spokesman walked them back: "Rep. Kelly does not believe that President Obama is personally operating a shadow government."
The Office of Congressional Conduct found "substantial reason to believe" the purchase was made on confidential information Kelly had learned on the job, but said it could not say for certain because of the lack of cooperation from Kelly, his wife, and his then-chief of staff.
In July 2025, after a four-year investigation, the House Ethics Committee did not find substantial evidence that Kelly himself broke insider-trading rules — but it did find substantial evidence that he violated the House Code of Official Conduct "by failing to meet his duty of candor," and voted unanimously to formally reprove him. His answers to key questions were "inconsistent," his document production "largely unresponsive," and his wife declined to answer the committee's written questions at all.
While the investigation was still open, his wife bought another $50,000 to $100,000 of the same stock on March 28, 2024 — one week before the Energy Department announced it would drop a proposed rule change that threatened the Butler plant, ending what Kelly's office called "a years-long legislative effort." Kelly did not disclose that purchase on time and did not answer the committee's questions about it. The committee told the Kellys to divest before he takes any further official action touching the company.
Separately, Business Insider reported that Kelly violated the STOCK Act — the law requiring members of Congress to disclose their families' stock trades — by filing his wife's purchase of Beauty Health Company shares more than seven weeks after the legal deadline.
Took Nearly $1 Million in Forgiven Taxpayer Loans — Then Voted to Keep Bailouts Secret
During the pandemic, four of Kelly's car dealerships took $974,100 in taxpayer-funded Paycheck Protection Program loans — Mike Kelly Chevrolet, Mike Kelly Hyundai, Mike Kelly Automotive LP and Mike Kelly Automotive Group. Every one of them was forgiven, wiping out $987,237 including interest. Free money, courtesy of the taxpayers, while he served in Congress.
Kelly then voted against the TRUTH Act, which would have forced the Small Business Administration to publish the identity of every business that received a PPP loan. Brought up under a two-thirds threshold, it failed 269 to 147.
We're all going to pay the price for this with increased rates of asthma, cancer, and premature deaths. We deserve better.
