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Rep. Clyde Names Policy Priorities: Budget, Guns, Right-to-Life

Now Georgia · April 6, 2026

Rep. Andrew Clyde, the incumbent Congressman in Georgia’s 9th Congressional District, rattled off a list of priorities for the rest of his third term, and ideally for his fourth, should he be re-elected this November. He has two primary opponents in the solidly Republican district, with a primary coming on May 19th. The others are former Gainesville former mayor Sam Couvillon and Gregg Poole, a Hall County Commissioner. Two candidates are also vying for the seat on the Democratic side.

In an interview with Now Georgia on April 1st, Clyde named several of his priorities, including:

Clyde, who wholeheartedly supported President Trump’s “One, Big, Beautiful Bill,” wants to take the president’s initiative even further.

“We firmly believe that we will have a second, and possibly a third crack, at budget reconciliation,” Clyde said. “I’ll call it the big, beautiful bill number two…we are going to go after waste, fraud and abuse because it is still significant, as we have seen in Minnesota.” …