Overview
- At a Peachtree City stop at Alta Refrigeration, Vice President J.D. Vance promoted tax breaks on tips and overtime and a larger child tax credit, pitching the new law as relief for working households.
- Vance attacked Sen. Jon Ossoff for voting against the measure, sharing the stage with GOP contenders Buddy Carter, Mike Collins, and Derek Dooley who are vying to challenge the Democrat in 2026.
- Pressed on nonpartisan assessments, Vance called a Congressional Budget Office analysis "absolutely atrocious," even as CBO and Kaiser Family Foundation projections point to large Medicaid and SNAP reductions and millions losing coverage by 2034.
- Georgia Democrats highlighted Evans Memorial Hospital’s warning of an estimated $3.3 million budget shortfall tied to the law and possible ICU cuts, alongside claims that more than 100,000 Georgians could lose health care.
- Vance also defended the National Guard deployment in Washington, D.C., and confronted a parallel political offensive as James Carville urged Democrats to make Vance a central target, citing optics like his Cotswolds vacation.