Role at the time: United States representative for Georgia’s 10th Congressional District
"get off of Social Security"
In a June 2025 radio interview, Collins argued that lower taxes could create incentives to work and referred in the same sentence to Medicaid, Social Security, and returning to work.
- First noted
- June 5, 2025
- Published here
- September 10, 2026
Why we used this label
The full answer offers a policy rationale for increasing work incentives, while its application to Social Security beneficiaries is the specific point later disputed by the campaigns.
Context
Before the quotation
Collins was discussing President Trump’s One Big Beautiful Bill Act and describing tax cuts as a way to increase revenue and reduce mandatory spending.
After the quotation
The full audio continues beyond the sentence. In 2026, Ossoff’s campaign used a shorter portion in an ad focused on Social Security. The short quotation is corroborated by FactCheck.org's transcription; the audio was not independently retranscribed in this update. The timestamp is the episode's publication time, not a verified recording time.
Sources
Reporting that identifies when the Ossoff television ad began, links the full June 2025 radio interview and ad, and records direct responses from both campaigns. It is used for the campaigns’ stated interpretations; the radio interview remains the primary record for Collins’s full wording.
Primary full interview record. Collins was making an argument for tax cuts and work incentives and referred in one sentence to Medicaid, Social Security, and returning to work. This is the full record from which the campaign ad excerpted audio. The brief quotation is corroborated by FactCheck.org's transcription; the audio was not independently retranscribed during this update. The timestamp is episode publication, not a verified recording time.