Mike Collins Heads to Texas Convention While Georgians Struggle to Pay Their Energy Bills 

ATLANTA, GA — This week, Trump and Republican candidates from across the country are holding their first-ever midterm national convention—a two-day, multi-million dollar televised pep rally branded “The Great American Comeback,” with no official party business on the agenda—other than hobnobbing with billionaire donors and avoiding the issue that’s actually top of mind for Georgians and all Americans, which is energy affordability and the cost of living. 

While families across the country struggle to pay for gas and cool their homes, Republicans are spending two days and up to $100,000 per ticket to celebrate in Dallas, TX. Trump and MAGA Republicans like Mike Collins promised to lower costs, then blocked the cheaper, cleaner, American-made power that would have brought bills down, handed the grid to data centers, and let Big Oil and monopoly utilities pass costs on to everyone else. Mike Collins has already taken nearly $45,000 from Big Oil donors this cycle—and $71,534 over his political career.

Here are the facts you won’t hear from Mike Collins and other Republicans this week:

• Georgians have spent an extra $1.55 billion on gasoline since Trump launched his war of choice in Iran — with the average Georgia household paying $387 more at the pump.
• Between higher gas prices, utility bills, and tariffs, Trump has cost the average family an extra $2,000 since he took office.
• The average family will pay nearly $800 in cooling costs by the end of the summer, up 10.5% from the past year.
• Big Oil’s bottom line keeps getting bigger as they rake in $85.2 billion in profits in Q2 alone.
• Republicans caved to Trump’s demands by gutting affordable, American-made clean energy, paving the way for their ultra-wealthy oil and gas donors—who spent $450 million to elect Trump and influence Congress in the 2024 cycle — to make even more money.  
• Trump and Republicans’ attacks on clean energy have jeopardized 3,492 Georgia clean energy jobs and over $3.9 billion in clean energy investments.

Voters know that Republicans have rubber-stamped Trump’s every move. Trump told Americans to pretend he’s on the ballot this November. He knows Republicans in Congress will keep rolling over for him, and voters do too.

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