DeKalb County Commissioner recently donated $1,000 of her office budget to the Scottdale-Tobie Grant Homework Center.

The center, a branch of the DeKalb County Public Library, bought 88 books with the gift, all focused on children and teens.

Because of budget cuts, the county spends just $100,000 countywide on materials at all of the library’s 22 branches.

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Senate Majority Leader John Thune, R-S.D. (center) is flanked by GOP whip Sen. John Barrasso, R-Wyo. (left) and Finance Committee Chairman Mike Crapo, R-Idaho, as Thune speak to reporters at the Capitol in Washington on Tuesday, July 1, 2025. Earlier Tuesday, the Senate passed the budget reconciliation package of President Donald Trump's signature bill of big tax breaks and spending cuts. (J. Scott Applewhite/AP)

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