Jon Ossoff
Role at the time: U.S. senator from Georgia, speaking in a Senate debate
Condemned
Response to this claim
Collins’s answer at the Savannah event amounted to support for taxpayer-funded payouts to violent January 6 participants.
“he wants to give your tax dollars to the violent thugs and criminals who sacked the U.S. Capitol on January 6th.”
Read the original text (opens in a new tab)Ossoff and Collins October 8 Senate debate transcriptOssoff response to the voter-ID question; passage beginning: he wants to give your tax dollars
Transcript of the October 8 debate. Ossoff criticizes compensation for January 6 attackers; his allegation does not establish that Collins supports automatic payouts.
Archived copy (opens in a new tab)Why we used this label
He explicitly condemns the alleged compensation policy.