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A congressional staffer who has worked with four representatives over the past four years, including GOP Senate hopeful Rep. Mike Collins (Georgia), appears closely tied to an anonymous social media account that denigrates female politicians, promotes political violence, calls for an end to democracy and laments the existence of civil rights laws, among other views, a Washington Post analysis of the account found. Details shared in posts on the account connect it to 25-year-old Jonathon Hatzistefanou, who works as a legislative assistant for Rep. Daniel Webster (R-Florida) and served as a former staff assistant for Collins, the Georgia Republican locked in a bitter fight for a Senate seat with Sen. Jon Ossoff (D).

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Georgia Republican’s ex-staffer posts pics of himself in Klan robes

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Reinforcements are coming for Republican U.S. Senate nominee Mike Collins.

The congressman is getting a boost from One Nation, a GOP-aligned group that said Thursday it plans to spend $15 million in Georgia targeting Democratic U.S. Sen. Jon Ossoff.

That comes on top of the $44 million the Senate Leadership Fund, the GOP super PAC linked to One Nation, has already pledged to spend on the race.

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POP INFO GOP Senate candidate spent $400,000 of taxpayer money on campaign-style ads

GOP Senate candidate spent $400,000 of taxpayer money on campaign-style ads

Georgia Congressman Mike Collins is using public funds to pay a political ad firm — the same firm that makes his Senate campaign ads.

Judd Legum

Jul 01, 2026

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GOP Senate candidate spent $400,000 of taxpayer money on campaign-style ads

Georgia Congressman Mike Collins is using public funds to pay a political ad firm — the same firm that makes his Senate campaign ads.

Judd Legum

Jul 01, 2026

Republican U.S. Senate candidate Mike Collins speaks to supporters at a primary night event on May 19, 2026 in Jackson, Georgia. (Photo by Jason Allen/Getty Images)

Congressman Mike Collins (R-GA), the Republican nominee for a hotly contested U.S. Senate seat in Georgia, spent over $400,000 of taxpayer money designated for office expenses on TV ads that are virtually indistinguishable from his campaign ads.

Collins paid for these ads using funds provided for the operation of his congressional office. Although it is permissible for such funds to be used for “mass communications” to constituents, the House Communications Standards Manual states that such communications “should not be used for political or personal business.” Further, the manual states that mass communications paid for with office funds should contain “no campaign content” and “no content laudatory of a Member on a personal or political basis.”

“Congressman Mike Collins. Mike you were fantastic,” President Trump says at the beginning of one ad paid for with Collins’ office funds. A narrator then states, “Mike Collins is protecting Georgia by working with President Trump to pass the Laken Riley Act.” The 30-second ad concludes by playing Trump’s praise of Collins again. “He loves this state and he took this very personally,” Trump says. “Thank you, Mike.” The only indication that the ad is not a campaign ad appears in small type for four seconds: “PAID FOR WITH OFFICIAL FUNDS BY THE OFFICE OF MIKE COLLINS.”

Indeed, Collins’ Senate campaign is currently running an ad that is substantively identical. Both ads include the exact same quote from Trump praising Collins, paired with the same video. In his taxpayer-funded ad, a narrator says Collins is “protecting Georgia by working with President Trump to pass the Laken Riley Act.” In his campaign ad, Collins says he “wrote the Laken Riley Act… to protect Georgia families.”

Another reason why these ads were so similar: it appears they were created by the same political ad firm, Smart Media Group. On its website, Smart Media Group says it “powers winning campaigns” and is “trusted by all the top Republican committees.” The firm says it leverages data to produce ads that “help campaigns win elections.” The House Communications Standards Manual also prohibits the distribution of “content developed using campaign resources.”

According to the House Statement of Disbursements, where each member must report their office expenses on a quarterly basis, Collins’ House office paid Smart Media Group over $400,000 between October 2025 and March 2026. This includes a payment for $307,160 on March 16, 2026.

To put that figure in perspective, over the same six-month period, the average Congressional office spent about $33,000 on all mass communications. A Popular Information review of the spending of every House member from 2020 to the present found that the payment of over $300,000 to Smart Media by Collins’ office was the single largest recorded payment for advertising.

Meanwhile, on May 1, 2026, Collins’ Senate campaign paid Smart Media Group $400,910 for an ad buy.

Unsolicited mass communications paid for with Congressional office funds are prohibited within 60 days of an election. Collins’ taxpayer-funded ad ran through March 18, 2026, just before that 60-day cutoff ahead of the May 19 primary in Georgia.

Collins’ office did not respond to a request for comment.

All unsolicited mass communications, including Collins’ ads, must receive an advisory opinion from the House Communications Standards Commission. Collins’ ads were approved, but the process is a rubber stamp handled by commission staff. There is no public record of any communication being rejected — or even elevated to the six-member commission for a vote.

The use of office funds to run TV and other video advertisements is a relatively recent phenomenon. Prior to 2000, mass communications by Congressional offices were limited to mail. Since the 18th century, members were permitted to send mail using their signature as postage, a process known as “franking.” This was seen as a crucial mechanism “to convey information to their constituents about the operations of government and policy matters before Congress.”

In 2000, the definition of mass communications in the House was formally expanded to encompass “mailings, advertisements, automated phone calls, video or audio communications, and emails.” This opened the door to the kind of taxpayer-funded ads Collins is running.

Several other members of the House, Democrats and Republicans, produce video ads with office funds. One of the more brazen examples is Congressman Brad Sherman (D-CA), who is a member of the House Communications Standards Commission. Collins’ conduct, however, stands apart due to the amount of taxpayer money he is spending, his use of campaign consultants, and the similarity of his taxpayer-funded communications to his campaign advertisements.

If Collins defeats incumbent Senator Jon Ossoff (D-GA) in the general election, he will have to change his conduct. There is no framework in the Senate that allows for the use of office funds for television ads.

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MAGA lawmaker freaks out and ends press conference over antisemitic son-in-law

MIKE COLLINS FOR SENATE

Registered with the FEC as the campaign committee of Rep. Mike Collins. This cycle it has given $2K to 1 sitting member of Congress — 100% to Republicans.

Filed contact: DATWYLER, THOMAS, Treasurer

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The chief of staff for the GOP frontrunner in the Georgia Senate race asked federal law enforcement to release a Holocaust denier from prison, according to a new report.

Kip Talley, who works for Rep. Mike Collins (R-GA) and was deputy chief of staff at the time, tried to leverage his position to free Holocaust denier Charles Johnson, according to text messages reported on by Slate.

Johnson was incarcerated in 2025 for civil contempt of court after refusing to cooperate with efforts to collect a $71 million judgment. Talley revealed in a group chat with about 30 people, including white nationalists Nick Fuentes and Richard Spencer, how he tried to make Johnson's stay more cushy, according to Slate.

"I'm going to try and use the levers of the legislative branch to check into his detention," Talley wrote in the group chat.

"I'm reaching out to my people at FBI and DOJ. Trying to get him out," another of Talley's messages read.

According to Slate, Talley also told the group that he was pressing the U.S. Marshals Service to ensure money was available in Johnson's prison commissary account, and that he was exercising "oversight" by checking in with officials and arranging phone calls with Johnson.

Talley responded to Slate with a statement saying that he "acted solely in my personal capacity" after he heard that "an acquaintance I have known for years was being mistreated in custody."

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Kip Talley, chief of staff to Rep. Mike Collins (R-Georgia), has been caught trying to free a Holocaust denier from prison.

Collins is currently the frontrunner for the Georgia U.S. Senate Republican runoff to take on Sen. Jon Ossoff (D).

Talley popped up in group chats given to Slate with white nationalists, including Nick Fuentes and Richard Spencer. He has been working to help Charles Johnson, a racist and Holocaust denier who was in prison from November 2025 to February 2026, the Dec. 2025 chats revealed.

The report cited some of Johnson's controversial statementson the Holocaust, such as: “I do not and never have believed the six million figure. I think the Red Cross numbers of 250,000 dead in the camps from typhus are more realistic.”

The U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum explained in a fact-check that the number citing 6 million Jews who were killed comes from the reports and records from surviving Nazi Germans themselves. They also used "prewar and postwar demographic studies; records created by Jews during and after the war; documentation created by resistance groups and underground activists; as well as other available, extant archival sources."

In 2016, Johnson appeared on a white nationalist podcast where he discussed his belief in “race realism.” He also shared an article claiming Black Americans had a “violence gene," Slate cited.

The chats show that Talley was spinning a tale that he was conducting "oversight." He also begged for fellow extremists to donate money so Johnson could afford items in the prison commissary.

“I’m reaching out to my people at [the] FBI and DOJ. Trying to get him out,” Tally told the group.

Johnson has a history of writing "news stories" that have been debunked as untrue. He was also one of the first early users of Twitter, who was banned after urging his followers to assassinate Black Lives Matter activist DeRay McKesson.

Johnson has gone MIA as the Trump administration enters its second year. He has been meeting with Cabinet officials and members of Congress, the report cited.

Johnson ended up in jail after he was "found civilly liable for $71 million in damages in acivil racketeering case." He was ultimately found in contempt of court.

The case surrounded his claim of being a U.S. intelligence agent and "running a fraud and extortion scheme." He refused to cooperate with investigators searching for his assets.

Collins scored 40 percent of the vote in the GOP primary and is set for a runoff on June 16 against Derek Dooley.

It's the second major Collins scandal in recent weeks after the congressman was forced to fire his top political aide, Brandon Phillips, who used the campaign's social media to mock the wife of a GOP strategist who is an alleged survivor of sexual assault.

Then there's Collins' congressional office's digital director, whorecently accosted Rep. Mike Lawler (R-N.Y.) with a slew of antisemitic slurs and insults. However, Lawler isn't Jewish

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Two-year period

2025–2026

Total raisedBrowse receipts

Coverage dates: 01/01/2025 to 06/30/2026

Total receipts$897,390.05

Total contributions$838,661.24

Total individual contributions$838,661.24

Itemized individual contributions$186,896.79

Unitemized individual contributions$651,764.45

Party committee contributions$0.00

Other committee contributions$0.00

Candidate contributions$0.00

Transfers from other authorized committees$57,205.07

Total loans received$0.00

Loans made by candidate$0.00

Other loans$0.00

Offsets to operating expenditures$768.93

Other receipts$754.81

Newly filed summary data may not appear for up to 48 hours.

Total spentBrowse disbursements

Coverage dates: 01/01/2025 to 06/30/2026

Total disbursements$862,709.15

Operating expenditures$132,709.15

Transfers to other authorized committees$730,000.00

Total contribution refunds$0.00

Individual refunds$0.00

Political party refunds$0.00

Other committee refunds$0.00

Total loan repayments$0.00

Candidate loan repayments$0.00

Other loan repayments$0.00

Other disbursements$0.00

Newly filed summary data may not appear for up to 48 hours.

Cash summary

Coverage dates: 01/01/2025 to 06/30/2026

Beginning cash on hand$6,940.45

Ending cash on hand$41,621.35

Debts/loans owed to committee$0.00

Debts/loans owed by committee$0.00

Newly filed summary data may not appear for up to 48 hours.

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[## GOP Lawmaker's Staffer Reportedly Hired Girlfriend For Fake Internship And Paid Her Thousands

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Mike Collins campaign video on X for U.S. Senate misspells Georgia

Jul 29, 2025Mike Collins' bid for U.S. Senate didn't get off to a great start as his campaign's team posted a promotional video on X misspelling his own state.

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House Ethics Committee extends inquiry into Mike Collins

2 days agoThe House Ethics Committee is extending its review of Rep. Mike Collins as ethics scrutiny unfolds amid Georgia's heated GOP Senate primary.

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by Georgia Conservation Voters | Mar 4, 2024 | Press & Media, Uncategorized

League of Conservation Voters Releases National Environmental Scorecard For Georgia’s Delegation

Atlanta, GA – Last week, Georgia Conservation Voters (GCV)released the Georgia delegation’s scores for the League of Conservation Voters’ 2023 National Environmental Scorecardhighlighting how some members chose to champion the environment and protect our democracy while others failed to do so. Since 1970, LCV’s Scorecard has been the primary yardstick for evaluating the environmental records of members of Congress. It is available for download in English here, in Spanish here, and online in both languages at scorecard.lcv.org.

The 2023 Scorecard shows the stark contrast between pro-environmental members of Congress and extreme MAGA Republicans in Congress. This year, many in our state’s delegation like Senators Raphael Warnock and Jon Ossoff, worked to fight back against attacks on our democracy and environmental protections unleashed by a chaotic MAGA Republican-led House that took hundreds of dangerous votes to cater to Big Polluters and the most extreme wing of their conference.

This was a dramatic change from 2022, when climate champions led both the House and Senate, passing the most significant climate and clean energy investments in American history. In 2023, some in our state’s delegation supported legislation that benefits people and the planet. But, unfortunately, some actively worked against it. This type of Congressional gridlock and chaos created by MAGA extremists led to one of the least productive Congress’ ever.

“Georgia State residents should be proud to have leaders who stand up against Big Polluters and attacks on our environment,” said GCV Executive DirectorBrionté McCorkle. “Despite the gridlock and chaos in Congress today, we know Senators Warnock and Ossoff are working every day to protect our air and water, and build a clean energy future for Georgians. Unfortunately, representatives Marjorie Taylor Greene and Rich McCormick continue to use their votes to cater to Big Polluters and right-wing extremists. Here at home, we still have to pass better legislation to ensure we implement and invest federal dollars so it benefits every community. Georgians must hold Green and McCormick accountable for their putting polluters over our communities and ensure Warnock and Ossoff continue to hold the line for us in Congress.”

“Following the most productive Congress in history for climate action, 2023 was not only the hottest year on record, it was one of the least productive legislative years ever because of MAGA House Republicans’ extreme leadership,” said LCV Senior Vice President of Government Affairs Tiernan Sittenfeld. “The last Congress showed that transformational change that works for both our communities and our planet is possible when our elected leaders come together to pass meaningful legislation that will tackle the climate crisis and environmental injustice. In 2023, the near-record number of House votes included underscores that the new House Republican majority did the bidding of Big Polluters and sought to undo the Biden-Harris administration’s historic leadership on climate change. We appreciate our allies in the House who consistently opposed these attacks and, thanks to champions in the Senate and the President’s steadfast leadership, these attempts to undermine the historic affordable clean energy plan were unsuccessful.”

For the second year, the 2023 Scorecardhighlights the leadership of the Tri-Caucus, including the history-making election of House Democratic Leader Hakeem Jeffries as the first member of the Tri-Caucus elected to lead either chamber. Leadership of the Congressional Asian-Pacific American Caucus (CAPAC), Congressional Black Caucus (CBC), and Congressional Hispanic Caucus (CHC) scored an average of 97% on the 2023 Scorecard. These champions in Congress led and supported many of the climate, conservation, environmental justice, and equitable democracy bills and initiatives in 2023, in addition to helping to educate constituents and connect communities to the transformational investments within the affordable clean energy plan.

The hike in energy costs, continued burning of fossil fuels, and lack of renewable energy sources in Georgia required an all-of-government approach that Congress helped deliver, despite relentless attempts by the fossil fuel industry and other entrenched interests to put their profits over Georgia.

The 2023 Scorecard includes 36 votes in the House, several of which were messaging amendments offered on major funding bills. The Senate in contrast, approved 69 lifetime federal judges with exceptional environmental records.

The full delegation’s scores for 2023 are:

Senator Warnock – 100 percent

Senator Ossoff – 94 percent

Representative Buddy Carter -3 percent

Representative Sanford D. Bishop – 94 percent

Representative Drew A. Ferguson – 0 percent

Representative Hank Johnson – 100 percent

Representative Nikema Williams – 100 percent

Representative Rich McCormick – 0 percent

Representative Lucy McBath – 97 percent

Representative Austin Scott – 0 percent

Representative Andrew Clyde – 0 percent

Representative Mike Collins – 0 percent

Representative Barry Loudermilk 0 percent

Representative Rick Allen – 3 percent

Representative David Scott – 97 percent

Representative Marjorie Taylor Green – 3 percent

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Michael Allen Collins Jr. (born July 2, 1967) is an American politician serving as the U.S. representative for Georgia's 10th congressional district since 2023. He is a member of the Republican Party. While in Congress, he introduced the Laken Riley Act.

Early life and career

Collins graduated from Georgia State University with a bachelor's degree in business. He has operated several businesses, including a trucking company.[1]^

U.S. House of Representatives

Elections

2022

Main article: 2022 United States House of Representatives elections in Georgia § District 10

Collins ran to represent Georgia's 10th congressional district in the United States House of Representatives in the 2014 elections, when incumbent Paul Broun was not seeking reelection. Collins finished in second place in the primary election to Jody Hice, advancing to a runoff election.[2] Hice defeated Collins in the runoff.[3]

After Hice announced that he would not seek reelection in the 2022 elections, Collins announced his candidacy.[1] During his campaign, Collins falsely claimed that Joe Biden had stolen the 2020 election.[4] In a campaign ad, Collins, carrying a gun, told the camera, "You count the legal votes that were cast in the state of Georgia? Donald Trump won this state, period." He then proceeds to shoot a voting machine which explodes.[4] This campaign ad would be cited in discussions of Collins' stance on gun control following the 2024 Apalachee High School shooting that occurred in his congressional district.[5]^

Collins and Vernon Jones advanced to a runoff election,[6] and Collins defeated Jones in the runoff on June 21.[7] Collins defeated Tabitha Johnson-Green, the Democratic nominee, in the November 8 general election.[8]^

After his election, Collins drew attention for hiring Brandon Phillips as his chief of staff. Phillips was arrested in November 2022 on a charge of animal cruelty for kicking a dog, and had previous criminal incidents, including pleading guilty to criminal trespassing and battery for a 2008 incident when he attacked a man and slashed his car's tires, and threw a woman's laptop. In addition to a separate incident of pulling his gun on a woman.[9] ^[10]

Collins's 10th District is located within Georgia's I-75 Central Corridor.[11]^

Tenure

Impeachments

On December 13, 2023, Collins voted to formalize the impeachment inquiry into Joe Biden.[12] Collins called for the impeachment and resignation of United States secretary of transportation Pete Buttigieg in 2023.[13]

Budget

Collins was among the 71 Republicans who voted against final passage of the Fiscal Responsibility Act of 2023 in the House.[14] In December 2023, Collins used a music-themed Mariah Carey display on the floor of the United States House of Representatives titled "All I want for Christmas is 12 appropriations bills".[15]^

Counternarcotics

In December 2023, Collins's H.R. 1734 Testing, Rapid Analysis, and Narcotic Quality (TRANQ) Act passed both the House and the Senate and was sent to the president of the United States to be signed into law. The Atlanta Journal-Constitution reported that Collins was "in line to become the first member of this year’s freshman class to see a bill signed into law."[16][17]^

Foreign policy

Collins was among 47 Republicans to vote in favor of 2023's H.Con.Res. 21 which directed President Joe Biden to remove U.S. troops from Syria within 180 days.[18][19]^

Collins voted to provide Israel with support following 2023 Hamas attack on Israel.[20][21] Collins supports the United States selling weapons to Taiwan, but voted against providing military aid to Ukraine during the Russian invasion of Ukraine.[22]^

Immigration

On January 24, 2024, Collins introduced a bill he called the "RAZOR Act" which would ban federal authorities from removing razor wire placed along the border with Mexico by the State of Texas and the Texas National Guard.[23][24]

After a migrant in New York City was released from jail without bail in February 2024 after allegedly attacking a police officer; Collins suggested the migrant be executed. Collins stated on X that the migrant should be given "a ticket on Pinochet Air for a free helicopter ride back.” Collins's post referenced the Chilean government's killing of dissidents on death flights carried out during the rule of Augusto Pinochet.[25] The migrant Collins had suggested be executed was later cleared of wrongdoing after the Manhattan district attorney's office announced he had been misidentified.[26]^

After the murder of Laken Riley, who was a Georgia resident, Collins introduced the Laken Riley Act, which requires U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement to detain undocumented immigrants charged with theft. The Laken Riley Act passed the House of Representatives during the 118th Congress.[27][28]^

After President Trump, newly re-elected, attended his inaugural prayer service, Collins suggested that Bishop Mariann Budde should be added to the deportation list due to the message delivered during the service, which included a plea for mercy for communities likely to be impacted by Trump's new policies. ^[29][30]

Social media

Collins frequently posts memes on social media, jokingly declaring that "Press Releases are out, memes are in."[31] In March 2024, Collins replied "Never was a second thought" to an antisemitic post on X by user "Garbage Human", who was implicitly disparaging Washington Post journalist Maura Judkis for being Jewish. "Garbage Human" later confirmed they were alluding to Judkis' religion. Esther Panitch, the only Jewish member of the Georgia State Legislature, criticized Collins, saying "It’s one thing to mistakenly respond to an antisemitic account. It’s another thing to double down on it and gaslight us like it never happened.” Collins denied his post on X was antisemitic, stating he had called Judkis a "garbage human" because she had said the United States was "built on stolen land."[32][33][34][35]^

In April 2024, amidst the ongoing pro-Palestinian protests on university campuses, Collins tweeted, "Not sure what y'all are doing up north, but we don't give them the time to encamp. Tazers set to stun!" Collins's post on X/Twitter was accompanied by a one-minute-17-second video clip depicting a series of scenes from the police crackdown on protesters at Emory University in Atlanta, Georgia, including a scene in which a Black man is seen lying on the ground in handcuffs while a Georgia State Patrol officer applies a taser to his leg and fires it. Other scenes in the video showed police struggling with protesters, protesters in handcuffs seated near an Atlanta Police prisoner transport van, and footage where the sound of police firing rubber bullets can be heard.[36][37]

In May 2024, Collins approvingly shared footage of counter-protesters at the University of Mississippi heckling pro-Palestinian protesters. Collins praised the counter-protesters, posting “Ole Miss taking care of business." The footage showed a white student engaging in racist mockery of a pro-Palestinian black student by imitating a monkey. The video also showed the counter-protesters chanting "Lock her up!" at the pro-Palestinian student.[38][39][40]^

In May 2024, following reports that presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. once said that a parasitic worm had been found in his brain, Collins posted on X, "You either die a Kennedy with a hole in the brain or live long enough to become a Kennedy with a hole in the brain", referring to the assassinations of Kennedy's father and uncle. His remark drew criticism.[41][42]^

In July 2024, after Donald Trump was injured in an assassination attempt at a rally in Butler, Pennsylvania, Collins stated on his X account, without evidence, that Trump's 2024 United States presidential election opponent Joe Biden "sent the orders" for the shooting and that Butler County's district attorney "should immediately file charges against [Biden] for inciting an assassination."[43][44]^

On October 2, 2024, the day after the vice presidential debate, Collins posted an altered chiseled image of JD Vance.[45]^

In January 2025, Collins posted on X that Reverend Mariann Edgar Budde should be deported after Budde (who was born in New Jersey) delivered a homily at the post-inaugural interfaith prayer service at National Cathedral calling for newly inaugurated President Trump to show mercy to immigrants and LGBTQ children.[46]^

Committee assignments

For the 118th Congress:[47]^

* Subcommittee on Environment

Caucus memberships

Personal life

Collins's father, the late Mac Collins, also served in the House of Representatives, representing Georgia's 3rd congressional district.[49]

Collins and his wife, Leigh Ann, have three children.[49] Collins calls himself a Methodist.[50] Collins's business 'Collins Trucking' is a sponsor of the Butts County, Georgia, Historical Society.[51]^

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The Right Rev. Mariann Edgar Budde, the Episcopal bishop of Washington — who led the inaugural prayer service Washington, DC Tuesday received fierce backlash from a Republican congressman after asking President Donald Trump to "have mercy" on LGBTQ people and immigrants.

“In the name of our God, I ask you to have mercy upon the people in our country who are scared now,” said Budde, as Trump, Vice President Vance, and their families looked on.

"There are gay, lesbian and transgender children in Democratic, Republican and independent families. Some who fear for their lives. They may not be citizens or have the proper documentation, but the vast majority of immigrants are not criminals. They pay taxes and are good neighbors. They are faithful members of our churches and mosques, synagogues."

READ MORE:**Trump Inauguration dubbed 'a coronation of our country's descent into oligarchy'**

Rep. Mike Collins (R-GA) shared the video via X, writing: "The person giving this sermon should be added to the deportation list."

Several journalists and immigration experts immediately slammed the Georgia lawmaker over his remark.

Religion News Service national reporter Jack Jenkins replied: "Note: The person giving the sermon in question is Bishop Mariann Budde, the Episcopal Bishop of Washington. Collins is suggesting deporting a U.S. citizen and bishop for delivering a sermon in accordance with their faith."

Longtime journalist John Harwood commented: "dangerous lunacy"

American Immigration Council senior fellow Aaron Reichlin-Melnick added: "A sitting member of Congress calls for the deportation of a bishop who asked Trump to show mercy to those in the country who are afraid. We are in a dark moment in this country and have abandoned our founding principles. God have mercy on us."

Center for International Policy Vice President for Government Affairs Dylan Williams commented: "You know wanting to punish and purge people for exercising freedom of speech and other basic American rights makes you a fascist, right?"

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..., US Rep. Mike Collins (R-GA) wrote on social media that Butler County's GOP attorney general should "file charges against Joseph R. Biden for inciting an assassination," while US Sen. Rick Scott (R-FL) "wrote that 'Democrats and liberals in the media have called Trump a fascist. They’ve compared him to Hitler.'"}:

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one of Donald Trump's vice presidential shortlisters was scorched by political experts and onlookers on Saturday after the GOP lawmaker put the blame for the rally shooting attempt at the feet of President Joe Biden.

Trump earlier in the day appeared to be shot in the ear as he addressed a rally in Pennsylvania. The former president was tackled by U.S. Secret Service agents, who have been criticized for their response to the emergency threat.

Trump's statement from his social media site focused on the fact that such an event shouldn't occur in the U.S., while Senator J.D. Vance had a different take on it.

Vance stated on social media that the shooting "is not just some isolated incident."

"The central premise of the Biden campaign is that President Donald Trump is an authoritarian fascist who must be stopped at all costs," he claimed on Saturday. "That rhetoric led directly to President Trump's attempted assassination."

Gregg Nunziata, executive director of the Society for the Rule of Law, called Vance's statement "extremely unhelpful, reckless, and dishonest."

"It turns up the heat and invites retribution," he added over the weekend. "We should demand better from our leaders."

Norman Ornstein — who is an emeritus scholar at the Koch-funded American Enterprise Institute — said that Vance "is not a leader."

"He is a pandering, cowardly, disgraceful lickspittle to Trump and and Putin," he said Saturday. "That he would say this is a true reflection of who he is."

@JDCocchiarella, a Democrat, said, "F--- JD Vance and this disingenuous and dangerous statement."

Vance's statement comes after another GOP lawmaker, Mike Collins, got himself in hot water by stating that President Joe Biden himself had ordered the shot at Trump.

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Just as they prophesied Trump’s victory and collaborated in the 2020 attempted coup, the Trump wing of the New Apostolic Reformation is on the offensive once again, waging a campaign in counties they think will swing the 2024 presidential election.

True the Vote is enlisting private citizens to help it overwhelm under-staffed and under-resourced election offices with voter roll challenges ahead of election day.

Rep. David Zimmerman’s bill is the latest carefully spun attempt to inject a right-wing brand of Christianity into schools in hopes of bringing more children to Jesus. It has already happened in Texas and Florida.

The freshman member from Georgia doesn’t have much of a legislative record, but he sure can stir up trouble online.

Johnny McEntee, the former White House Trump aide closely linked to plans for radical federal government reform should Donald Trump win re-election, stoked outrage with a TikTok video in which he claimed to give unhoused people fake money, thereby to ensure their arrest.

As Donald Trump remarks on “the late, great Hannibal Lecter,” perhaps the former president ought to just give up on pop culture references altogether.

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for a moment it seemed Rep. Mike Collins (R-GA) knew that, this time, he’d taken it too far.

Last week, the prolific shitposter lauded a group of fraternity brothers at Ole Miss who jeered a Black pro-Palestine protester—including one who made racist monkey noises at the woman—as “Ole Miss taking care of business.”

The mainstream media and left-leaning politicians’ response to Collins’ statement was swift and scathing. The archconservative freshman lawmaker is no stranger to controversy—in recent months he’s dubbed Haiti a “sh*thole” country and suggested an undocumented migrant be thrown from a helicopter—but this time, even Collins acknowledged his post amplifying naked racism warranted some damage control.

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While he said the racist taunting was not the “focal point” of the video he shared, “there certainly seems to be some potentially inappropriate behavior that none of us should seek to glorify.” (The video itself remains up on Collins’ X feed.)

But instead of simply smoothing over the situation with his non-apology, Collins lost precisely the people he’s spent months attracting with his hard-right provocations.

One verified anonymous account called Collins a “coward” for his conciliatory tone. “No wonder the GOP is a failing party,” they sniped.

Another X account with nearly 150,000 followers describing itself as a “purveyor of ‘hateful conduct’” responded, “This is weakness. Tired of it.”

It wasn’t long before Collins returned with another eyebrow-raising post that seemed perfectly calibrated to collect both another round of outraged headlines and the trust of his ultraconservative internet groupies.

“You either die a Kennedy with a hole in the brain or live long enough to become a Kennedy with a hole in the brain,” Collins posted, comparing the 1963 assassination of President John F. Kennedy to current independent presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s alleged brain worm.

And with that, Collins was back on the board.

“BALLSY AF!!” cheered far-right influencer Laura Loomer.

Independent Presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. at a campaign stop in Brooklyn, New York.

As Collins has tried to forge a name for himself online—flouting all the internet etiquette presumed of a sitting congressman—he’s bringing the Republican party’s far-right internet underbelly to the spotlight.

Collins told the *Atlanta Journal-Constitution* in an April interview that he’s aware of the scrutiny around his posts, but that those outraged aren’t his target audience, adding that he’s being himself.

“That’s people that probably weren’t ever going to be happy with me anyway,” he told the AJC. “But that’s OK.”

He’s not the first Republican lawmaker to outwardly embrace ultraconservative rhetoric disguised as jokes, but he’s one who seems to be getting away with it. After months of posts decried in the media—both mainstream and social—as racist, antisemitic, and, at times, violent, some lawmakers on both sides of the aisle consider him little more than a burr in their side.

The far-right internet culture Collins engages with has become as unremarkable to the Republican Party as it is intractable. As the GOP has tacked to the right under former President Donald Trump’s reign atop the party, shocking behavior like Collins’ posts have become routine.

And yet, as far-right internet culture has become a major component of the GOP’s base, even mainstream Republicans in competitive races have to play ball with ultraconservative social media trolls, or risk being branded Republican in name only (RINO).

“NEVER WAS A SECOND THOUGHT”

Collins, of course, is an extreme example of this dynamic. But it didn’t start out that way in Congress. Capitol Hill circles got to know Collins’ X posts during last year’s weeks-long battle over the House speakership. Collins proudly became the so-called “memer of the House” delighting Capitol Hill with levity to break up the House’s chaotic, leaderless purgatory.

Perhaps his most beloved meme from that era depicted a couple in bed. A woman stared at her partner wondering, “He’s probably thinking about other women.” The man, instead, was thinking, “Who can get to 217?”—the number of votes needed to elect a speaker.

While Collins still shares plenty of innocuous humor on X, his social media presence has shifted noticeably rightward since then. In March, Collins responded to an anonymous racist account (calling itself “Garbage Human”) after it made a veiled reference to a Washington Post reporter being Jewish.

“Never was a second thought,” Collins wrote in response. (Collins later said his comment was not antisemitic, but rather, his critics “just see stuff that ain’t there.”)

Collins’ office did not respond to repeated interview requests or written questions from The Daily Beast.

Despite his online persona, Collins keeps a relatively low profile on the Hill. Rep. Steven Horsford (D-NV)—the chair of the Congressional Black Caucus—told The Daily Beast that he wasn’t aware of a Mike Collins in Congress so couldn’t possibly weigh in on his social media posts.

“I don’t know who he is,” Horsford said.

Rep. Maxwell Frost (D-FL)—the first member of Generation Z in Congress—was at least aware of Collins’ social media persona, but struck a diplomatic tone to describe Collins, his neighbor in Washington, D.C.

“He’s definitely posted some things, I think, that are not good to post. I saw he apologized for posting that video of the person and the racism,” Frost said. “I’m glad he did that.” Though Frost added, “I don’t really have much else to say though… I’m not as online as he is.”

To be sure, Democratic lawmakers have called out Collins. Rep. Jamaal Bowman (D-NY), for one, replied to the Georgian’s post about Ole Miss with the comment, “Mike Collins is fueling white supremacy.”

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When Collins called Haiti a “sh*thole” country in March—parrotingTrump’s infamous 2019 line—Democrats seized on the comment. Rep. Madeleine Dean (D-PA) said the post “displays the extraordinary contrast between how Democrats take a look at foreign affairs… versus those who just want to demean those who are suffering these things.”

(Collins, for his part, doubled down, telling The Hill that it “seems like all the money we’ve spent over the years propping up Haiti was a bad investment, and current events should not be used as an excuse to import more foreigners into America.”)

But for a Democratic Party seeking to highlight hard-right extremism as they try to reclaim the House of Representatives, the response to Collins has been relatively muted. Back in 2021, the House censured Rep. Paul Gosar (R-AZ)—a far-right lawmaker who had a history of associating with white supremacist and right-wing militia groups—for posting a cartoon video that depicted him killing Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY).

Rep. Paul Gosar leaves a House Republican Conference meeting.

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Though Collins has not publicly advocated for violence against his fellow lawmakers, he stoked yet another round of social media fury in February when he suggested using “Pinochet Air” tactics against an undocumented migrant, referring to Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet’s use of so-called “death flights” to throw detractors from a helicopter into the ocean or the Andes mountains. (Even Elon Musk’s X admitted at the time that the post violated standards, but the statement remains public.)

But House Republicans have repeatedly tried to censure Democrats for criticizing Israel’s military conduct in Gaza after Hamas’ Oct. 7 attack, successfully censuring Rep. Rashida Tlaib (D-MI) last year, and launching a new effort to censure Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MN) last week. If Democrats wanted to go tit-for-tat with their GOP foes, Collins social media posts are ripe for condemnation.

Rep. Frost said that sort of thinking misses the point.

“Should it be censured at all? I don’t know,” Frost said of Collins’ Ole Miss post. “They're the ones that censure people every week, right? We're focused on legislation.”

In a chamber where the likes of Gosar and Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA)—who once infamously blamed Jewish space lasers for California wildfires—routinely make attention-grabbing moves that are breathlessly written up in the media, Collins may be the least of Democrats' problems.

As his profile grows among the far-right online community, Collins hasn’t quite gotten the same warm reception within his own party on Capitol Hill. He reliably votes with conservatives and has a 100 percent rating from Heritage Action—which makes him more aligned with the conservative think tank than his fellow Georgian, Greene.

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Beyond his social media presence, his first major foray into the spotlight was in response to University of Georgia student Laken Riley’s murder by an undocumented migrant.

Collins—who represents the district in which UGA resides—spearheaded legislation in Riley’s name that would require federal officials to detain undocumented migrants who commit crimes until they can be deported. Nearly 40 Democrats joined the entire House GOP conference to pass the bill which is under consideration in the Senate.

Rep. Marjorie Taylor-Greene wears a shirt and button showing slain Georgia college student Laken Riley ahead of President Joe Biden's State of the Union address.

At the State of the Union address in February, just weeks after the murder, Collins invited Riley’s parents to the address. They declined, and ultimately Collins’ attempts to draw attention to the issue were overshadowed by Greene interrupting Biden’s speech, demanding he “say her name.”

But generally, lawmakers told The Daily Beast that Collins is not much of an operator. As is typical for first-term representatives, he has little sway as a junior member of committees. Even Collins’ fellow Georgia Republicans didn’t have much to say about him. Conservative Rep. Andrew Clyde (R-GA) put his description of Collins bluntly, “I guess, he’s a Republican.”

“He's a freshman. He’s new,” Clyde told The Daily Beast. “Give him some grace because he’s all right. He's a pretty conservative vote, and so I’m happy about that.”

Back in Collins’ home district, Charles Bullock—a University of Georgia professor and expert on Peach State politics—told The Daily Beast that Collins could hold the seat for years if he wanted to. Given his record, he’s safely inoculated himself from a challenge on the right. Plus, the district reliably elects Republicans despite encompassing the liberal enclave of Athens, Georgia, home to UGA.

Bullock described Collins as a worthy successor to the district’s conservative tradition. “I haven’t heard any negatives about him,” he said of Collins. “He’s around. He’s visible.”

Collins’ family is well known in the district. His father, Mac Collins, served as a Republican in Congress from 1993 to 2005, but had more of a moderate lean than his son. Collins is also the wealthy heir to a trucking dynasty that allowed him to self-fund over $500,000 for his 2022 campaign.

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That 2022 election offered an early glimpse at Collins’ inappropriate flair for the dramatic online.

Collins ran against Trump-endorsed Vernon Jones, who had a background in Democratic politics. Jones also faced accusations of misconduct toward women. Though Jones denied the claims, Collins capitalized, distributing rape whistles with Jones’ name on it.

Collins then took to X to write, “Although some use a rape whistle for protection against sexual assault, a 9mm is the more preferred form of protection.”

Jones filed a police report against Collins for encouraging violence. It didn’t matter—by 9 p.m. on election day, Collins was on his way to beating Jones by over 50 percentage points.

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On Sunday, first-term Congressman Mike Collins (R-GA) participated in a vehemently anti-Semitic attack against a Washington Post journalist on X, the social network formerly known as Twitter. After receiving a flood of criticism, Collins responded by pretending he said nothing objectionable. Meanwhile, numerous major corporations continue to financially support Collins' reelection bid.

The spark for the incident was a story by Washington Post feature writer Maura Judkis about the closure of a CVS in Washington, DC. It was a nuanced piece acknowledging that increased shoplifting may have influenced the decision to shut down the store. (Even though a CVS spokesperson did not cite it as a factor.) At the same time, Judkis noted that the current "moral panic" about shoplifting is not always supported by data. To set the scene, Judkis described the United States as "a sticky-fingered nation built on stolen land."

This prompted the publication of an article by Fox News, republished in the New York Post with a misleading headline, "Washington Post reporter says shoplifting not a big deal because US built on ‘stolen land.’" This is not something that Judkis says in the piece. But it was quickly seized on by a racist meme account on X, @GarbageHuman23. "In case you were wondering, yes she is," @GarbageHuman23 commented. "Never was a second thought," Collins responded.

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@GarbageHuman23 frequently posts anti-Semitic memes and other content attacking Jewish people. The account promotes the notion that Jews are part of a massive conspiracy to manipulate white people and enrich themselves. It also frequently posts bigoted memes about Black people, LGBTQ people, and others. Here are a few examples of posts targeting Jews:

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In case there was any doubt, @GarbageHuman23 confirmed that he was attacking Judkis for being Jewish. "Take note," @GarbageHuman23 wrote in response to a thread of posts criticizing his attack on Judkis and Collins' response. "It’s antisemitic to point out somebody is Jewish when they actually are indeed Jewish."

In response to the controversy, Collins posted a meme accusing his critics of "grasping at straws."

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In response to a request for comment, a spokesperson for Collins sent Popular Information the same meme. "I think it's obvious that the congressman believes only a garbage human would excuse crime because they believe the U.S. is on 'stolen land,'" the spokesperson added. (Collins later publicly posted a similar explanation.) A follow-up inquiry, noting that @GarbageHuman23 has made their intentions clear, was not returned.

Georgia State Senator Josh McLaurin (D) said that Collins’ post was "an obvious antisemitic reference" to "appeal to the far right." Now, McLaurin said, Collins is "gaslighting" his critics. McLaurin also condemned Collins' conduct on the floor of the Georgia Senate, reportedly eliciting applause.

Collins’ corporate backers

Collins is reinforcing the anti-Semitic attacks of pseudo-anonymous racists, while he enjoys the financial support of major corporations. Since 2023, Collins' reelection campaign has received contributions from the corporate PACs of American Airlines, Coca-Cola, Delta, Boeing, Home Depot, UPS, Verizon, and others.

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Several of these companies have been outspoken opponents of anti-Semitism. In September 2023, for example, UPS condemned the "increase of antisemitism across the United States" and committed to "to using our strength and purpose to help dismantle discrimination wherever it exists through our advocacy efforts and partnerships." According to UPS, "[s]ilence and inaction are not options." The company did not respond to a request for comment.

McGuireWoods, a major law firm that donated to Collins through its PAC, signed a statement this fall "condemning anti-Semitism on university campuses." Kevin Frankle, a partner at the firm, said he was proud the firm was participating "[w]hether popular or not" because it is "the just and moral stance to take." The firm did not respond to a request for comment about its financial support for Collins.

Home Depot told Popular Information that the company has "a long history of promoting and valuing diversity" and "supports candidates on both sides of the aisle who champion pro-business, pro-retail positions." Home Depot did not say whether it intended to continue to support Collins in light of his participation in the anti-Semitic attack against Judkis.

Collins' other corporate donors did not respond to a request for comment.

Collins’ history of promoting extremist content

Earlier this month, on X, Collins proposed throwing out migrants from helicopters to address the border crisis. The Georgia congressman shared a post by Representative Anthony D’Esposito (R-NY) that featured a picture of a migrant flipping off the camera after he was released from a New York City Criminal Court. D’Esposito wrote: “We feel the same way about you. Holla at the cartels and have them escort you back.” “Or we could buy him a ticket on Pinochet Air for a free helicopter ride back,” Collins replied, referring to the practice of “death flights” during Chile’s military dictatorship when officers would throw out political dissidents from planes and dump them into oceans and rivers.

According to Christopher Mathias, a reporter who covers far-right extremists, Collins was “parroting a meme that’s been popular among white supremacists & neofascists like the Proud Boys for the last 7 or so years.” Collins’ post was removed for violating X’s rules on “violent speech,” and the Congressman was locked out of his account. The post was eventually restored for “public interest,” but contains a disclaimer that it “violated the X Rules.” Collins celebrated his return by posting, “I’m back 😎 Never delete. Never surrender.”

Before this incident, Collins was among those who blamed DEI after a door panel flew off an Alaska Airlines flight. As Popular Information previously reported, experts have never linked air safety problems to DEI. In 2023, Collins also blamed DEI after a Norfolk Southern train derailed in Ohio. In 2022, Collins also attended the New York Young Republican Club's annual gala alongside white nationalists Peter Brimelow and Lydia Brimelow.

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In a tweet posted Thursday, a sitting member of Congress posted about murdering an undocumented immigrant using a method deployed by one of the most oppressive regimes of the 20th century.

Rep. Mike Collins (R-Georgia) quote-tweeted one of his Republican colleagues, Rep. Anthony D'Esposito (R-New York), who was responding to a Fox News video showing undocumented immigrants arrested for assaulting NYPD officers leaving custody. In the video, one of the alleged assailants gave two middle fingers to a Fox News photographer, prompting D'Esposito to tweet, "we feel the same way about you. Holla at the cartels and have them escort you back."

In the now-deleted post, Collins wrote "or we could buy him a ticket on Pinochet Air for a free helicopter ride back."

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Before X/Twitter took action to delete the tweet, Rep. Mike Collins (R-Georgia) drew the scorn of hundreds of people. MSNBC host Chris Hayes tweeted that "sitting members of congress calling for murdering people using the Pinochet regime's preferred method of dropping them out of helicopters is really not great."

Huffpost reporter Christopher Mathias contextualized Collins' tweet, saying it was "parroting a meme that’s been popular among white supremacists & neofascists like the Proud Boys for the last 7 or so years."

The tweet is a reference to far-right Chilean dictator Agosto Pinochet's reign of terror, in which left-leaning political dissidents were captured, tortured and sometimes murdered. One of the more notable examples is that of musician and activist Victor Jara, who was rounded up by Pinochet's forces and tortured in Chile Stadium in the weeks following his US-backed September 11, 1973 coup that deposed democratically elected president Salvador Allende. CNN reported that Jara's body was found with more than 40 bullet wounds and signs of torture.

Collins has not yet addressed the tweet, though his colleagues may do so in the future. Rep. Paul Gosar (R-Arizona) was censured by the House of Representatives and temporarily removed from all of his committee assignments over a video posted to his social media depicting him killing Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-New York) with a sword. Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene's (R-Georgia) trafficking in racist and anti-Semitic conspiracy theories also resulted in Democrats voting to strip her of her committee assignments.

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the Republican-majority House of Representatives has just ten days to avert a shutdown of the federal government. Far-right Republicans, including those from the Freedom Caucus, are proposing amendments to attach to a funding bill that have little chance of passing in the Senate, like defunding Vice President Kamala Harris’ Office.

If Speaker Mike Johnson does not move forward legislation to fund the federal government that the Senate will pass, and President Joe Biden will sign, a government shutdown could be in effect at 12:01 AM November 18.

U.S. Rep. Mike Collins, a freshman Republican of Georgia, has proposed an amendment “that would halt any funding for Vice President Kamala Harris’ office,” according to The Messenger. Collins has called the Vice President a “Radical” Democrat.

Congressman Collin’s amendment is not the only one proposed to take aim at Democrats and Democratic principles.

“Multiple amendments that were offered targeted funding toward the White House Office of Gun Violence Prevention, while another by Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, R-Ga., proposed reducing Internal Revenue Service (IRS) Commissioner Daniel Werfel’s salary to $1,” Fox News reports. Greene recently complained the House was forcing members to vote on legislation at 1:00 AM.

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In March, Rep. Collins suggested on the floor of the House of Representatives that diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) were possible culprits in the Norfolk Southern train derailment.

“After seeing another Norfolk Southern train derailed this weekend, I was reminded of the fact that the company wrote to shareholders stating that it is focused on DEI,” Collins said, as The New Republic reported. “This administration’s focus on DEI is forcing private companies to rethink their goals and one has to wonder, was Norfolk Southern’s DEI policies directing resources away from the important things like greasing wheel bearings? Now this insanity must stop.”

During that speech, Collins targeted U.S. Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg and DEI.

“From his first day in office, he has been more focused on diversity training and identity politics than on building and maintaining America’s transportation system,” Collins said, Fox News reported.

Claiming Buttigieg was “whining about too many white people in construction industries,” Collins said: “His policies have continuously put the wokes before the folks.”

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Collins earlier this year said: “Democrats follow ESG [Environmental, Social, and Governance] and DEI like a religion; it is, it’s called wokeism.”

In September, Collins in a committee hearing attacked Buttigieg, saying he is “pushing a far-left, woke, DEI socialistic experiment.”

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Congressman Collins is not the only Republican targeting diversity, equity, and inclusion, or DEI.

“Two Offices of Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Accessibility (ODEIA) within the Biden administration are the subject of cost-cutting GOP proposals,” Fox News also reported Tuesday. “An amendment proposed by Rep. Greg Steube, R-Fla., specified defunding the Treasury’s ODEIA, and a similar amendment by Rep. Harriet Hageman, R-Wyo., hit the Office of Personnel Management.”

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