NEW: GOP Senate Candidate-Backed Bill Would Add $2.4 Trillion to the Deficit and Rip Health Care from Millions

Yesterday, the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) released a damning new estimate finding that the GOP’s budget bill would increase the deficit by $2.4 trillion, and rip health care away from 10.9 million Americans. 

Republican U.S. Senate candidates Insurance Commissioner John King and Rep. Buddy Carter have both unequivocally backed the bill, which could strip Medicaid coverage from roughly 102,200 Georgians. Georgia Republicans Rep. Mike Collins and Rep. Rich McCormick also voted to pass the bill. 

Here’s what they said:

• In a recent interview with 11Alive, John King said he “absolutely” would vote to pass the GOP plan if he were in the Senate.
• Not only did Rep. Buddy Carter vote to pass the bill, he said he was “very proud” to lead the charge on cuts to Medicaid as the chair of the House Energy and Commerce subcommittee.
  • Carter: “If we don’t get this non-discretionary spending under control — that is Social Security, Medicaid, Medicare — if we don’t get that under control, all the DOGE in the world is not going to do any good.”

Trump’s budget bill would be the largest Medicaid cut in American history, kicking working families in Georgia off of their health insurance and seriously threatening the state’s rural hospitals, all to pay for massive tax cuts for billionaires. 

“The latest estimates from the CBO are a stark reminder of how disastrous the bill supported by both John King and Buddy Carter would be for Georgians,” said DPG Senior Communications Advisor Devon Cruz. “Georgia voters will be paying close attention as the GOP Senate candidates fight over who is more supportive of Trump’s agenda to strip Medicaid from hundreds of thousands of people.”