Kemp wants Georgia agency heads to skip budget hearings

Georgia legislative leaders scheduled meetings later this month to hear how state agencies plan to respond to Gov. Brian Kemp’s call to cut their budgets, but they may spend that time talking to each other.

The Kemp administration plans to make clear it won’t participate in these budget meetings, and neither will the people it has appointed to run state agencies. Read the full story from the Atlanta-Journal Constitution. 

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