GOP Budget Law Breakdown: GOP Senate Candidates Support Attacks on Georgia's Clean Energy Jobs and Industry That Could Raise Prices

August 7, 2025

As Georgia Republicans return home for August recess, DPG is reminding voters every day this week of the biggest betrayals of Georgians in Trump’s budget law

Day 4: One of the biggest betrayals of Georgians found in President Donald Trump’s recently enacted budget law is its attacks on countless jobs and manufacturing in the clean energy industry.

The GOP U.S. Senate candidates in Georgia have all gone on the record to support Trump’s harmful budget law, even after Georgia’s clean energy sector was “sounding the alarm” about how the law could “cost jobs” across the state.

Recent reporting from the AJC outlines how Trump’s budget law could threaten the future of clean energy jobs and manufacturing, and raise energy prices across Georgia, but that didn’t stop “MAGA warrior” Rep. Buddy Carter, MAGA extremist Rep. Mike Collins, and failed and fired former Tennessee football coach Derek Dooley from supporting it. 

Additional reporting from the AP details how “no state may have more to lose than Georgia from such cuts in Trump’s ‘Big Beautiful Bill,’”as a result of the sweeping cuts in the GOP-backed budget. 

“Lowering costs and creating jobs aren’t anywhere near as important to the GOP U.S. Senate candidates as lining up behind Donald Trump’s harmful agenda, no matter the devastating impacts it would have on Georgians,” said Democratic Party of Georgia Senior Communications Advisor Devon Cruz. “The Democratic Party of Georgia will be reminding Georgians throughout August recess that Collins, Carter, and Dooley would only be rubber stamps for Donald Trump’s job-killing, economy-sinking agenda.”

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