By Ross Williams | Deputy Editor
“It’s a Republican-controlled House, Republican-controlled Senate, Republican-controlled White House. If Republicans had a plan, this was the perfect scenario to get it passed. You should have all the votes — get it done. And they're not doing anything.” — Former Georgia Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene, referring to what she characterized as a lack of action on addressing health insurance costs.
Downtown Dallas, Georgia, about an hour outside Atlanta in the state’s 14th Congressional District. The district is a Republican stronghold that since 2021 had been represented by Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene. (Briah Lumpkins/KFF Health News)
HEALTHCARE
By Briah Lumpkins, KFF Health News
Amber Bates of Cohutta, Georgia, is one of thousands of people without health insurance in the 14th Congressional District, home to about 765,000 people in the northwestern corner of the state.
She and her husband have not had health coverage for the past two years, Bates said, because their employment is unsteady and they earn too much to qualify for Medicaid, the public health insurance for those with disabilities or low incomes.
When the GOP-led Congress allowed enhanced Affordable Care Act subsidies — which helped lower the cost of plans sold on the marketplace — to expire at the end of last year, Bates’ mother-in-law dropped her plan, too.
File photo of Maggie the cow, brought to the state Capitol in 2021 by representatives of Georgia’s cattle industry to greet lawmakers. Ross Williams/Georgia Recorder
ECONOMY
By Ross Williams
A White House plan intended to help ranchers build up the nation’s cattle herd is causing consternation among Georgia cattlemen and generating beef in the Georgia governor’s race.
A pound of ground beef cost the average Fourth of July grill master about $6.89 last month, up from $6.25 in July 2025 and $4.39 in July 2021, according to data from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics.
Volunteers at the Denver Clerk and Recorder's office check and organize primary ballots on June 30, 2026. (Photo by Andrew Fraieli/Colorado Newsline)
VOTING
By Jacob Fischler
A federal judge froze for two weeks a Trump administration regulation to restrict mail voting late Thursday, calling the U.S. Postal Service rule a violation of states’ power to administer elections.
U.S. District Judge Indira Talwani’s temporary restraining order reinstated a pause that she had lifted just a day earlier, following a U.S. Supreme Court procedural ruling Monday that allowed the administration to implement the policy. The federal government will likely appeal Thursday night’s order.
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