Rick Allen has spent his time in Congress fighting to make Georgians’ lives harder. He voted to kick more than 40,000 Georgians off their health coverage by supporting the Big Ugly Bill, even though 45 health care facilities across Georgia, including a rural hospital in his district, were at risk of closure due to the bill’s cuts. In the same vote, he passed the biggest cuts to SNAP in history, ignoring that more than 49,000 households in his district relied on the program. Allen was also working to make life harder for seniors as a member of the Republican Study Committee. The group staunchly advocated for raising the retirement age, ignoring evidence that doing so would cost future retirees thousands of dollars every year. Allen was an early supporter of DOGE, joining the Congressional DOGE caucus and touting how excited he was to partner with the agency. When the agency came under fire for indiscriminately firing federal workers Allen flippantly told them to just go get another job, and when DOGE cut hundreds of millions of federal research grants for agencies and universities across Georgia, Allen was nowhere to be found.
Today is the favorite holiday of anyone who loves paying astronomical prices for their daily necessities, like putting food on their family’s table, gas in their tank, or purchasing literally anything from any store. “Republicans in Congress are jumping for joy at the anniversary of Liberation Day — the day life got completely unaffordable for American families,” said American Bridge President Pat Dennis. “They all bowed down…