GOP Budget Law Breakdown: GOP Senate Candidates Support Increased Taxes, Spiked Costs for Georgia's Working Families

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 5: Last but certainly not least, one of the biggest betrayals of Georgians found in President Donald Trump’s recently enacted budget law is the way it restricts tax credits for working families and raises costs across the board. 

The GOP U.S. Senate candidates in Georgia have all gone on the record to support Trump’s harmful budget law, even as it leaves hundreds of thousands of working families behind in qualifying for and accessing the federal Child Tax Credit and the Earned Income Tax Credit. It also delivers major cuts to SNAP and ACA subsidies that could raise the price of food and affordable health insurance. 

Here’s How Georgians Could Suffer:

• Ending ACA subsidies, which help 95% of Georgians on ACA health care plans afford their insurance, could raise premiums by thousands of dollars annually.

• 735,000 children in Georgia could be ineligible to receive the full amount of the Child Tax Credit because their families earn too little to qualify, as they face the high cost of raising children in Georgia.
• New red tape applied to the Earned Income Tax Credit would make it harder for working families to claim it on their tax filings which means effectively raising their tax bills each year.
• Major changes to SNAP could leave working Georgians with less help putting food on their table with “families in rural counties affected the most.”

“Donald Trump’s budget law poses a major threat to the financial wellbeing and livelihoods of countless Georgians, yet Buddy Carter, Mike Collins, and Derek Dooley have proudly stood behind their support for this harmful agenda,” said Democratic Party of Georgia Senior Communications Advisor Devon Cruz. “The Democratic Party of Georgia will not stop reminding Georgians that these candidates for U.S. Senate cannot be trusted to do what’s right and stop prioritizing tax cuts for billionaires over helping working families.”