Mike Collins voted on April 9, 2025 to repeal the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau's oversight of the biggest payment apps (roll call 95), a step Consumer Reports said puts the privacy of their sensitive financial data at risk. On July 3, 2025 he voted for the One Big Beautiful Bill Act (roll call 190), which cut the bureau's funding cap and gave ICE money that paid for surveillance tools, according to Brookings.
In March 2025 Collins called DOGE "a genius" idea. The government later conceded that DOGE associates may have improperly accessed sensitive data at the Social Security Administration, which holds records on 2,023,789 Georgia beneficiaries.
Mike Collins's Votes and Statements on Consumer Privacy, Surveillance and DOGE
- Collins Voted Twice to Cut the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau's Funding and Fund ICE Surveillance Tools, in 2025. On July 3, 2025, Mike Collins voted yes as the House passed the final One Big Beautiful Bill Act 218 to 214, after voting for the House version, which passed 215 to 214, so it would have failed without his vote. That House version would have capped the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau's funding at $249 million. The final law decreased the funding cap in FY2025 to $446 million from $823 million, the Congressional Research Service found. Brookings reported that ICE bought surveillance tools including facial recognition technology, automatic license plate readers, cell-site simulators, phone location databases, some of which were funded by the law.
- Collins Voted to End Federal Privacy Oversight of the Biggest Payment Apps in April 2025. On April 9, 2025, Collins voted yes on S.J.Res. 28, which passed the House 219 to 211 and was signed into law, ending Consumer Financial Protection Bureau supervision of large payment apps including Google Pay, Apple Pay, Samsung Pay, Venmo, PayPal, Cash App, and Facebook. Consumer Reports said the repeal puts the privacy of their sensitive financial data at risk, because Payment app providers collect extensive personal data from users and share that information widely with other companies.
- Collins Called DOGE "a Genius" as It Gained Access to Social Security Data Later Found to Have Been Shared Without Approval, in March 2025. On March 22, 2025, Collins posted, "Whoever came up with @DOGE is a genius". A Justice Department court filing later disclosed DOGE's sharing of data via a third-party Cloudflare server at the Social Security Administration and said the agency can’t determine what data was shared or whether it still exists on the server, FedScoop reported; in April 2026 Nextgov reported that the government conceded that DOGE associates may have improperly accessed sensitive data at the agency. A federal judge found that the Office of Personnel Management shared records with DOGE affiliates, individuals who had no legal right of access to those records.
What the Privacy Votes Mike Collins Cast Mean for Georgians
- Social Security records. Social Security records cover the 2,023,789 Georgians who receive benefits, including 162,789 in Collins's 10th District, according to the Social Security Administration's 2024 congressional district fact sheet.
- Payment-app users. The repealed rule would have let federal examiners check large payment apps such as Venmo, PayPal and Cash App for compliance with the privacy provisions of the Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act, a protection for the Georgians who use them.
Frequently Asked Questions About Mike Collins on Big Tech and privacy
What is Mike Collins's record on privacy under Trump?
Mike Collins voted in April 2025 to repeal the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau's oversight of the biggest payment apps (roll call 95) and in July 2025 for the One Big Beautiful Bill Act (roll call 190), which cut the bureau's funding cap and gave ICE money that paid for some of its surveillance tools. He praised DOGE as "a genius" idea as it gained access to Social Security data that the government later conceded may have been improperly accessed.
Did Mike Collins vote to cut the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau?
Yes. Mike Collins voted for the One Big Beautiful Bill Act, which decreased the funding cap in FY2025 to $446 million, and for the House version, which would have cut it further, to $249 million.
Did Mike Collins support DOGE getting access to Social Security data?
Mike Collins praised DOGE in March 2025, calling whoever came up with it a genius. A Justice Department filing later said the Social Security Administration can’t determine what data was shared through a server DOGE used, records that cover the 2,023,789 Georgians on Social Security.
Last updated: 2026-10-25