The Georgia state Senate handed a invoice on Monday that they’re referring to as “DOGE lite.”
Senate Invoice 28, Pink Tape Rollback Act of 2025, has the purpose of lowering prices and growing accountability for state businesses by having them assessment and replace guidelines and rules each 4 years.
Throughout the vote, Democrats had been in opposition to the measure, accusing Republicans of attempting to deliver DOGE to Georgia. “DOGE” refers back to the Division of Authorities of Effectivity, headed by SpaceX CEO Elon Musk and geared toward shrinking the federal authorities.Â
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Republican Georgia senators on Thursday, Feb. 22, 2024 on the state Capitol in Atlanta. (AP Photograph/Jeff Amy)
“This can be a energy seize. Plain and easy, that is DOGE coming to Georgia,” stated state Sen. Emanuel Jones (D-Decatur) throughout the debate.
An aerial {photograph} reveals the Georgia State Capitol in Atlanta. (Joe Sohm/Visions of America/Common Photographs Group through Getty Photographs)
The invoice can be geared toward small companies and requires state businesses to guage the cost-effectiveness of guidelines and can solicit the general public’s enter concerning whether or not guidelines are justified and if the federal government can additional scale back these prices.
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The vote was cut up between celebration strains, however the majority was Republican.
“Now that Donald Trump is president, we have to feign outrage a few commonsense invoice,” claimed Sen. Greg Dolezal following the vote.  “That’s simply the state of play in Georgia politics.”
Dolezal says there was some mischaracterization of the invoice.
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He went on to say earlier than President Trump was reelected {that a} comparable invoice handed with bipartisan assist final yr.
Total, Senate Democrats imagine the invoice shall be efficient in aggressive cost-cutting, very like on the federal degree.
The invoice will now go to the Home for consideration.
