Latest Brian P. Kemp News

Trump's Cabinet picks are set for Senate hearings. Here's the schedule
WASHINGTON (AP) — The nominations process for President Donald Trump's appointees is picking up pace, with some confirmed by the Senate and hearings scheduled for more of his Cabinet picks. Many nominees have met with senators individually. Now they are appearing before the...

Trump wants to cut taxes. So do governors and lawmakers in some states
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) — President-elect Donald Trump has proposed trillions of dollars of tax cuts for individuals and businesses. In some states, governors and lawmakers are seeking to cut millions more. The movement for more tax cuts comes after most states already have...

Georgia House speaker backtracks on banning senator who was arrested for trying to enter the chamber
ATLANTA (AP) — Georgia's House speaker said Friday that he's lifting his ban on a state senator entering the House chamber, a day after Sen. Colton Moore was arrested after he tried to enter for Gov. Brian Kemp's state of the state speech. The decision came after state Senate and...

Sealy Mattress company is sued after Georgia man was found dead inside a locked trailer
ATLANTA (AP) — A Georgia man suffering a mental health crisis wandered into a Sealy Mattress facility, and his body was found locked inside the back of a truck there about a week later, his family says in a wrongful death lawsuit filed this week. Relatives had been frantically...

Arkansas governor wants to revive state's Medicaid work requirements under Trump administration
LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) — Arkansas Gov. Sarah Huckabee Sanders said Thursday she wants to impose work requirements on some Medicaid recipients, hoping to revive and expand a restriction that was blocked by the courts but could get a new life under the Trump administration. Sanders'...

Kemp wants to use savings to boost Georgia spending, but projects flat tax revenue
ATLANTA (AP) — Georgia will boost spending by $4.4 billion in the last three months of the current budget year under the spending plan released Thursday by Gov. Brian Kemp. But the Republican is projecting that state revenues will barely budge in the 2026 budget year that begins...

Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp wants to again speed up income tax cuts
ATLANTA (AP) — Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp wants to again speed up state income tax cuts and is warning lawmakers that he'll call them back into special session later this year if that's what it takes to push through his priority of limiting lawsuit verdicts. The second-term governor...

Georgia senator arrested after he tried to defy a ban on entering the House chamber
A Georgia state senator who was previously banned from the state House chamber was arrested Thursday when he tried to enter the chamber for the governor's state of the state speech and got into a shoving match with House employees. State Sen. Colton Moore, a Republican from Trenton,...

Some parents could be able to join Georgia's Medicaid program without working
ATLANTA (AP) — Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp announced Wednesday he wants to let low-income parents with young kids enroll without working in a Medicaid program that provides coverage for some able-bodied adults. Kemp's announcement came as President-elect Donald Trump returns to office...

Pro-Stacey Abrams groups fined $300,000 after admitting they broke Georgia campaign finance law
ATLANTA (AP) — The Georgia Ethics Commission voted unanimously on Wednesday to fine two advocacy groups that were founded by Democrat Stacey Abrams and led by Raphael Warnock before voters elected him to the U.S. Senate. The commission found that the New Georgia Project and its...
