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News Articles: federal funding cuts

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Georgia will not join multi-state education lawsuit against the Trump administration

Georgia will not join the 24 states and Washington, D.C., that are suing the Trump administration to release $6 billion in promised federal education grants, Attorney General Chris Carr said. 

July 17, 2025
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  • Sarah Kallis
Bibb County Schools Superintendent Dan Sims speaking during the school system's convocation ceremony in July of 2023.

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  • Education

Close to $7B in federal funds for education remains frozen. Here's what Macon-Bibb's share is for

GPB's Grant Blankenship recently talked to Bibb County School Superintendent Dan Sims to find out what the frozen money was meant to pay for.

July 15, 2025
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  • Grant Blankenship
RaShaun Kemp

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  • Education

State legislators call for the release of held-up education funds

Democrats in the State Senate are calling on the Trump administration to release federal funds designated for after-school programs. 

July 14, 2025
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By:
  • Sarah Kallis
a man with a fork life pallet of food moving through the food bank's warehouse

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  • News

Federal cuts leave Georgia food banks facing more demand with less produce

The federal cuts to food assistance programs will affect over 1 million Georgians who may turn to food banks for help.

July 11, 2025
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  • Amanda Andrews
Volunteers share bags of groceries Wednesday with some of the close to 500 families who access food aid at the St. Peter Claver Catholic Church in Macon every week. The St. Peter Claver pantry is just one of over 150 pantries affiliated with the Middle Georgia Community Food Bank.

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  • Health Care

How will Georgia manage changes to SNAP and Medicaid rules? State leaders are figuring it out 

By using AI-powered bots and better supporting caseworkers, social service providers in Georgia are still trying to catch up on a backlogs of applications to the programs.

July 11, 2025
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By:
  • Sofi Gratas
Bibb County teacher Heidi Hintermaier teaches a summer school reading class in Macon in June, 2023. RS6873_060723_READING_52 FILE.jpg

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  • Education

Georgia Federation of Teachers asks Kemp to call special session to address education funds

A group that represents teachers and school staff across Georgia is asking Gov. Brian Kemp to call a special session to address federal cuts to education funding.

July 11, 2025
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  • Sarah Kallis
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  • Education

Federal education funding freeze impacts 27,000 Georgia students and after-school programs

The federal department of education has frozen billions of dollars in school grants, impacting school districts and after-school programs in Georgia. 

July 04, 2025
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  • Sarah Kallis
6-Acre Solar Farm Will Soon be Constructed in East Georgia

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  • Economy

Clean energy advocates worry Georgia progress could be in jeopardy from reconciliation bill

Clean energy advocates in Georgia worry about the impacts of "big beautiful bill" cuts on the state’s growing manufacturing sector.

July 03, 2025
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By:
  • Sarah Kallis
Some current CDC employees at the protest wore surgical masks with blue masking tape to symbolize what some called their inability to speak out about changes art the CDC.

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  • Health

As FY 2026 budget moves through Congress, CDC cuts threaten public health in Georgia

Former directors of the Atlanta-based Centers for Disease Control and Prevention are raising the alarm ahead of budget talks. 

July 03, 2025
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By:
  • Sofi Gratas
The Qcells solar panel plant is seen Friday, June 27, 2025, near Cartersville, Ga. (AP Photo/Mike Stewart)

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  • Economy

A Georgia town that solidly backed Trump could fall victim to tax bill's green energy cuts

No state may have more to lose than Georgia as Republicans in Congress look to gut federal subsidies that aid both the solar and electric vehicle industries. And few towns have more to lose than Cartersville. Some local Republicans oppose the cuts, but high-ranking Georgia Republicans have been publicly silent.

June 30, 2025
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  • Associated Press
Patricia Cheeley, center, has been coming to Homeplace Adult Day Center in Wrens, G.a. for about five years. She's often found in the living room reading from her Bible. Cheeley and others who are elderly and/or disabled and eligible for Medicaid can use it to pay for long-term support services, like attendance to a day center.

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  • Health Care

For Georgia's aging population, Medicaid cuts threaten options for care

Medicaid helps pay for the services seniors can no longer do for themselves. Proposed cuts target federal spending for the program, worrying providers of caregiving services.

June 17, 2025
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  • Sofi Gratas
The entrance to the Turner Job Corps Center in Albany recently.

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  • Economy

How cuts to the nation's trade school could put vulnerable young people at risk

Among recent targets for federal spending cuts is a sixty year old Department of Labor program called the Job Corps. NOW thousands are wondering where they'll go next.

June 17, 2025
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By:
  • Grant Blankenship
The Washington Memorial Library is located in Macon, Ga., and is part of the Middle Georgia Regional Library system. Elizabeth Tammi Center for Collaborative Journalism

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  • News

Macon libraries face potential program cuts as federal government slashes funding

Middle Georgia libraries may have to reduce programs as federal funding cuts impact museums and libraries across the nation.

June 16, 2025
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  • Lucinda Warnke and
  • The Telegraph
The Stitch project will create a three-quarter mile platform over highways 75 an 85 to reconnect downtown with Old Fourth Ward, English Avenue, an Midtown.

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  • News

Atlanta leaders rally support to preserve funding for The Stitch highway capping project

The 17-acre community reconnecting project was scheduled to break ground next year, but now the timeline is uncertain.

June 11, 2025
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By:
  • Amanda Andrews
On May 21, 2025, Ossoff pressed against the sale of the Okefenokee National Wildlife Refuge, securing a commitment from the Interior Secretary. (Screenshot)

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  • Politics

Taxpayer dollars at work: Okefenokee land, CDC funding, family farms

Georgia's U.S. senators worked on protecting the Okefenokee, urged Senate leadership to fund the CDC, pressing USDA about Georgia family farms, and upgrading Georgia airports.

June 04, 2025
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By:
  • Ambria Burton
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