This is the $6.14 billion draft list of transportation projects approved by five mayors and county commissioners on August 15. A final draft will be approved by Oct. 15, and voters in the 10-county Atlanta region will decide next year whether to fund it with a 1 percent sales tax.

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Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, seen here at a rally for President Donald Trump in Macon in 2024, is a key vote for the president's tax and spending bill as it heads back to the House. (
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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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