Georgians Protest Rep. Mike Collins’ Support for Trump’s Harmful Budget as He Mulls Senate Run [11Alive, ANF]

Georgians in Rep. Mike Collins’ district are speaking out against the cuts to Medicaid, health care, and jobs that he supports in Donald Trump’s harmful budget bill, as the U.S. House prepares to vote on the bill once again, and as Rep. Collins considers a run for U.S. Senate.

In Monroe, voters gathered outside of Rep. Mike Collins’ district office to share their stories about how the harmful budget bill would impact their lives and denounce his support for the bill:

11Alive: Monroe voters protest ‘Big Beautiful Bill’ outside Rep. Mike Collins’ office

• Anchor: Meanwhile, in Monroe, Georgia, voters from the 10th Congressional District gathered today outside of Representative Mike Collins’ office. They’re urging him to oppose this bill, they say it will hurt hardworking families, slash vital programs, and threaten their safety.
  
• Barbara Burt: This bill harms the constituents in Mike Collins’ District 10, it harms Georgians, it is really a horrific bill, with all sorts of cuts to essential services and things that we rely on for daily living.
  
• Anchor: Organizers say they plan to keep the pressure on as that bill moves through the House. 

ANF: Demonstrators call on lawmakers to reject Trump’s ‘Big, Beautiful Bill’

• Doug Reardon, ANF: In congressional districts all across Georgia Tuesday, constituents demonstrated against President Trump’s spending bill.
  
• Barbara Burt: We almost can’t believe that they’re talking about passing this bill, it’s so cruel.
  
• Barbara Burt: What I do hope is that [Collins’s] constituents will hear the stories that we’ve been telling today and they will understand how important this bill is to their future and how much harm it will cause.
  
• Sen. Jon Ossoff: Voting for this bill is betraying the state of Georgia.
  
• Sen. Jon Ossoff: The Republicans in Georgia’s US House delegation face a very clear choice: partisanship and loyalty to the President or loyalty to our constituents in Georgia.
  
• Doug Reardon, ANF: Ossoff notes the bill by 2034 would kick 12 million Americans off health insurance through cuts to Medicaid and rollbacks to the Affordable Care Act.
  
• Doug Reardon, ANF: It also eliminates clean energy incentives that have driven state investments in electric vehicle and solar plants that resulted in hundreds of Georgia jobs.