DOGE Fever and Dollars: Georgia’s 2025 Legislative Power Moves Unveiled

Near­ing the end of the Georgia’s 2025 Gen­er­al Assem­bly ses­sion, spot­light­ing DOGE-themed polit­i­cal mes­sag­ing, while the bills pass will impact on wal­lets, schools, speed­ing cam­eras, and health­care. State Sen­a­tor Frank Ginn grabs head­lines with his “Go DOGE Sic’em” stance and a con­tro­ver­sial $10K steel beam pay­out. Mean­while, Gov­er­nor Kemp’s lit­i­ga­tion over­haul faces a House vote, backed by hard­ball tac­tics like spe­cial ses­sion threats and pri­ma­ry chal­lenger fund­ing. Plus, dive into Georgia’s $1.6B bud­get hike for 2026, shap­ing health­care, edu­ca­tion, and trans­porta­tion amidst a 23% spend­ing surge over the last three years.

• You hear a lot about DOGE in GA. Repub­li­cans and democ­rats look to score points with poli­cial mes­sag­ing bills in the gen­er­al assem­bly. The GA assem­bly has passed many bills this year that affect your wal­let, your neigh­bor­hood schools and speed­ing cam­eras on your dri­ve home and health­care for facil­i­ties for when you are sick. Pic­tured is State Sen­a­tor Frank Ginn hold­ing a sign “Go DOGE Sic’em.” In anoth­er sto­ry: State sen­a­tor giv­en $10K for beams he got from state con­trac­tor for free. Frank Ginn said a met­al recy­cling cen­ter recent­ly paid him $10K for a col­lec­tion of used steel beams that he ear­li­er asked a state con­trac­tor to let him take from a con­struc­tion site. 
• Kemps hard­ball tac­tics test­ed as lit­i­ga­tion over­haul nears House Vote. The lob­by­ist wrote the bill. The sen­ate made some changes, now if the house makes some changes it has to go back to the sen­ate with the house changes . Now Kemp is threat­en­ing a spe­cial ses­sion and if you vote against it he will fund a pri­ma­ry chal­lenger. Now in the GA GOP it is taboo to put up a chal­lenger against an incum­bent. But Kemp is say­ing vote my way or he has cash. What will prob­a­bly hap­pen is the House and Sen­ate will cre­ate a joint com­mit­tee to have joint con­sen­sus on the bill. They are pre­tend­ing like it is a push back. But what they are doing is look­ing around the state to see who can get the 4 or 5 no votes to cam­paign that they stood up to the bill and look like there was a strug­gle for the bill. 
• GA is mak­ing bil­lion dol­lar deci­sions about health­care, schools and trans­porta­tion. Wash­ing could upsend the state bud­get. The house 2026 bud­get pro­pos­al approved Tues­day increas­es spend­ing by $1.6B or 4.4%, the increase has been 23% over the last 3 years.