AJC: A Eulogy for the GOP Deficit Hawk, Which Died a Public Death Last Week
July 10, 2025
A new column from the AJC slams GOP U.S. Senate candidate Rep. Buddy Carter and potential candidate Rep. Mike Collins for the hypocrisy of pretending to care about reducing the national deficit but voting to pass a budget bill that will increase it by over $3 trillion.
The bill’s tax cuts for billionaires are funded by $1 trillion in cuts to Medicaid, and it adds so much to the national deficit that it could trigger automatic cuts to Medicare of $500 billion.
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AJC: A eulogy for the GOP deficit hawk, which died a public death last week
- The [GOP budget] hawk died of self-inflicted wounds after promising for years to rein in the country’s spiraling debt and deficits, but then voting to do the exact opposite by lining up behind President Donald Trump’s massive tax cut and spending package known as the, “big, beautiful bill.”
- Instead of cutting deficits, the bill Trump signed into law on July 4 will add trillions to the national debt over the next 10 years according to multiple independent budget analyses.
- The bill will also raise the country’s debt limit by $5 trillion, the most of any bill in history.
- Republican budget writers did all of this by combining $1 trillion of health care and food assistance spending cuts…and $4.4 trillion worth of new and extended tax cuts.
- Altogether, the nonpartisan Pete Peterson Foundation said that the legislation will increase the U.S. national debt by $3.4 trillion.
- At the beginning of this year, U.S. Rep. Buddy Carter, R-St. Simons Island, pledged on social media that, “Our national debt has increased by $4.12 million per minute over the last year. Donald J. Trump and House Republicans will restore fiscal sanity.”
- In 2024, U.S. Rep. Mike Collins, R-Jackson, called the Congressional Budget Office’s increasing debt projections “mind boggling and civilization-ending numbers.” He later wrote that cutting the federal debt and deficit “MUST, and has to be, Congress’ top priority as we do 2025 spending bills.”
- Never let it be said again that Republicans really care about reducing debts and deficits, because once they were in charge and had the chance to act, they did the opposite last week with the big, beautiful bill.
