U.S. Rep. Rich McCormick (R-Ga.) is under fire for remarks he made regarding government assistance programs, specifically free school lunches, during an interview with CNN on Tuesday.

Trump issued federal funding freeze then rescinded it. Opposition says a freeze would risk serious damage to healthcare, education and public safety.

The administration cannot be trusted to tell us the truth,” said Jerry Gonzalez, CEO of Galeo Impact Fund. “They have lied into what they’re doing right now."

A federal judge temporarily halted President Donald Trump’s order freezing trillions of dollars in federal grants and loans. But not before the sprawling plan had unleashed a wave of confusion — and some panic — among public and private organizations that rely on the money to fund programs aimed at everything from Meals on Wheels to solar power to cancer research.

The Trump administration’s abrupt pause on trillions of dollars in federal grants and loans could cause widespread program disruption in GA.

President Trump signed the Laken Riley Act, which mandates the deportation of undocumented immigrants convicted of nonviolent crimes. ATLANTA - Legislation named in honor of a Georgia nursing student murdered by an undocumented immigrant on Wednesday became the first bill signed into law by President Donald Trump.

Under the new law, federal officials would be required to detain any migrant arrested or charged with crimes like shoplifting, assaulting a police officer or crimes that injure or kill someone.

Former Atlanta mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms said she is considering running in Georgia's 2026 gubernatorial election. She last served in the Biden administration.

President Donald Trump said he’s signing an executive order to instruct the Pentagon and the Department of Homeland Security to prepare a 30,000-person migrant facility at the Guantánamo Bay Naval Base in Cuba.

President Trump on Wednesday signed the Laken Riley Act into law, marking his first legislative victory since he returned to the White House after he campaigned on immigration and the border

It’s been less than two weeks and President Donald Trump is turning the White House, and by proxy the country, into his own fiefdom. Every infuriating headline about an important shuttered federal division or series of petty comments about how Black folks couldn’t possibly be qualified to do the job they were hired for begs the question: Have we no Black leaders who can push back against Trump?

New law mandates detention of illegal immigrants accused of serious crimes, regardless of whether they have been convicted.