Legislator Fact Sheet · Georgia's 10th Congressional District
Mike Collins, owner of a Jackson-based trucking company, has represented Georgia's 10th District since 2023. He is running for U.S. Senate in 2026 rather than seeking re-election to the House; the scorecard below covers his House record. Ten of the twelve scorecard votes predate his tenure.
HRC Equality Score: 0/100 (118th Congress). An external rating from the Human Rights Campaign, an LGBTQ+ advocacy organization, scoring members 0–100 on support for LGBTQ+ equality based on key votes and bill cosponsorships in the 118th Congress (2023–24). Included for reference; it reflects HRC's positions, not this site's.
Methodology. Every vote below is the member's actual recorded position, pulled directly from the official House Clerk roll-call XML and cross-checked against the published vote totals. DNV = did not vote; — = not yet in office. Summaries are factual; framing is left to the reader.
The largest safety-net rollback in recent memory — over $1 trillion cut from health programs and at least $120 billion from SNAP, with new Medicaid work requirements and higher ACA premiums. Supporters cast it as tax relief and spending restraint; opponents warned it would strain rural hospitals and nursing homes and raise costs for lower-income families.
Requires DHS to detain undocumented people merely charged with or arrested for theft-related offenses — without a conviction — and lets states sue the federal government over immigration enforcement. Named for a Georgia nursing student killed in 2024, it drew bipartisan support, but immigrant-rights groups criticized the detention-without-conviction standard and due-process concerns.
Let Medicare negotiate prescription-drug prices, capped insulin at $35/month for Medicare enrollees, extended ACA premium subsidies, and funded clean-energy investment — direct savings for lower- and middle-income households and seniors, paid for partly with a corporate minimum tax. It passed on party lines.
Funds roads, bridges, broadband, and water-system replacement, with Georgia set to receive billions for roads, ports, airports, water systems, and broadband access. One of the few major bipartisan infrastructure laws of the era.
A $1.9 trillion COVID-relief package: $1,400 stimulus checks, expanded unemployment benefits, and a one-year Child Tax Credit expansion credited with helping cut child poverty nearly in half in 2021. Supporters credited it with speeding the recovery; critics argued it fueled inflation. It passed on party lines.
The first major federal gun-safety law in nearly 30 years: enhanced background checks for buyers under 21, funding for state red-flag laws, closure of the “boyfriend loophole,” and new mental-health and school-safety money. Passed weeks after the Uvalde school shooting with bipartisan support.
Codified federal recognition of same-sex and interracial marriages, requiring states to honor marriages performed where they were legal. A response to concerns that the Supreme Court might revisit marriage rights; it passed with bipartisan support.
Subsidized domestic semiconductor manufacturing and research to cut reliance on foreign chips and ease the supply-chain shocks that drove up prices on cars and electronics — including roughly $75 million directed to strengthen chip production in Georgia. Passed with bipartisan support.
Expanded VA health care and benefits for millions of veterans exposed to toxic burn pits and other hazards during their service — one of the largest expansions of veterans’ benefits in decades. Passed with broad bipartisan majorities.
Cut the corporate tax rate permanently and individual rates temporarily, doubled the standard deduction, and capped the state-and-local-tax (SALT) deduction. The largest tax overhaul in a generation; supporters cited growth and simpler filing, while critics noted the largest benefits flowed to corporations and higher earners and that it added to the deficit. It passed on party lines.
The principal effort to repeal and replace the Affordable Care Act — rolling back the Medicaid expansion, restructuring subsidies, and weakening protections tied to pre-existing conditions. The Congressional Budget Office estimated tens of millions would lose coverage. It passed the House but failed in the Senate.
A sweeping elections-and-ethics overhaul — automatic and same-day voter registration, expanded mail and early voting, nonpartisan redistricting, new campaign-finance disclosure, and tighter conflict-of-interest rules. Supporters called it the most significant voting-rights expansion in decades; opponents called it federal overreach into state-run elections. It passed the House but stalled in the Senate.
Constituent Access
Open public forums with constituents · review period 2023–2026
The finding is the absence of open in-person forums. Collins told constituents in advance that he would not attend a town hall they organized — so they held it with an empty chair and a red MAGA cap in his place. He is now running for U.S. Senate in 2026.
Verified against Georgia Public Broadcasting, Flagpole, and The Red & Black (March 2025). The absence finding reflects local media searches; constituents with records of an open in-person Collins town hall are encouraged to submit a correction via the contact link.
Campaign Finance
2025–26 cycle · Federal Election Commission
Collins is running for U.S. Senate, and his committee money is dominated by transfers from his joint fundraising committees ($1.25M), with Georgia corporates — Delta, Home Depot, Coca-Cola — and SpaceX behind them.
$19,146 this cycle
Direct contributions from AIPAC's PAC plus donor money bundled ("earmarked") through AIPAC and forwarded to the campaign — totaled from AIPAC's own FEC disbursement filings, 2025–26 cycle.
| # | Contributor | Amount |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Collins Victory Fund | $1,464,248 |
| 2 | Collins For Ga Senate Republican Nominee Fund | $730,000 |
| 3 | Collins Victory Committee | $130,928 |
| 4 | Collins | $65,000 |
| 5 | Nrsc Victory | $62,000 |
| 6 | Senate Conservatives Fund | $15,000 |
| 7 | National Ready Mixed Concrete Assn. PAC | $15,000 |
| 8 | True North PAC | $10,000 |
| 9 | The Eye Of The Tiger PAC | $10,000 |
| 10 | Leadership And Accountability Are National Key | $10,000 |
Source: Federal Election Commission, 2025–26 cycle. Direct PAC contributions and committee transfers only — individual donors, earmarked conduit pass-throughs, refunds, and loans are excluded. Figures auto-pulled from FEC filings.
Accountability
A COVID-era Paycheck Protection Program loan tied to this person's business
Collins's trucking company received the loan in April 2020; federal records show it was later forgiven. Afterward, Collins put more than $500,000 of his own money into his 2022 congressional campaign.
The Paycheck Protection Program was a lawful pandemic-relief program; many loans were forgiven under its rules. Figures are from the SBA's public loan data via the source(s) listed. Forgiveness is stated only where the record shows it; a “paid in full” status does not by itself confirm forgiveness.
Accountability
Reported controversies, charges & ethics matters · past decade
Collins's Senate campaign runs a statewide network of county “convoy captains,” volunteers it announced by name in January 2026 to turn out low-propensity voters. Two of them — the Hall and Banks County captains — held leadership roles in American Patriots USA, a group the Southern Poverty Law Center classifies as white nationalist, founded by Chester Doles, a former Maryland Ku Klux Klan leader and National Alliance figure jailed for a 1993 assault on a Black man. Collins himself denounced the group as a “hate organization” in 2019. A week later the Daily Beast reported criminal records among other captains: the Richmond County captain pleaded guilty in 2014 to felony cruelty to children, sexual battery and family-violence battery involving a stepdaughter under 16 (30 days in jail, 10 years' probation); the Jenkins County captain was charged in 2025 with child cruelty and failure to report abuse after he kept driving his school bus while seven students beat a 7-year-old; and the Carroll County captain pleaded guilty in 2009 to six misdemeanor counts over Medicaid claims for dental work he never performed, a plea that also resolved assault and child-cruelty charges, and lost his dental license. It is the third report in five months tying people around Collins to white-nationalist figures, after his chief of staff (May) and his son-in-law (July). We identify the volunteers by county rather than by name; the sources below name them.
CNN's KFile reported that Collins's son-in-law, David Alan Scheer II — married to his daughter Summer — is a white-nationalist social-media influencer with more than 1.5 million followers across TikTok, YouTube, Instagram and Telegram, posting Nazi imagery, antisemitic conspiracy theories, calls to deport Muslims, warnings that white people are “going extinct,” and promotion of Patriot Front, the white-supremacist group. The ties are close and documented: Scheer appears in family photos on the campaign's website, attended Collins's Senate-primary victory party, helped produce promotional videos for Collins Trucking, and is registered to vote at a Collins-owned property beside the congressman's home. It is the second report tying Collins's inner circle to white-nationalist figures, after the May 2026 group-chat story involving his chief of staff.
Slate reported in May 2026 that Collins's chief of staff, Kip Talley, took part in a group chat — titled “Research Group—Johnson '28?” and including white nationalists Nick Fuentes and Richard Spencer — in which he wrote that he wanted to “use the levers of the legislative branch” to help free Charles C. Johnson, a far-right activist and Holocaust denier jailed in late 2025 on a contempt charge. Talley, then Collins's deputy chief of staff (promoted to chief of staff in January 2026), said he was “reaching out to my people at FBI and DOJ” to get Johnson out. He called it a personal effort for a mistreated acquaintance and kept his job; the episode fueled Sen. Jon Ossoff's depiction of Collins as an “antisemite” and “extremist.”
The House Ethics Committee announced in November 2025 that it found “substantial reason to believe” Collins used congressional resources for unofficial or unauthorized purposes — including about $5,000 paid in 2023–24 to an intern, Caroline Craze, who allegedly performed no work and was the girlfriend of Collins's then-chief of staff, Brandon Phillips (now a senior adviser to his campaign). Investigators said Collins, Phillips and other staff did not cooperate and recommended subpoenas. The allegations have not been adjudicated.
Each item is drawn from published reporting or official records, with sources listed. Where a matter was dismissed, settled, withdrawn, or remains pending, that disposition is noted; allegations are identified as such, and inclusion does not imply a finding of guilt. Corrections are welcome via the contact link below.
Vote positions are taken from official roll-call records, not secondhand summaries. Campaign-finance figures are drawn directly from the candidate's FEC filings for the 2025–26 cycle.