Top Georgia Republican unveils statewide DOGE plan to 'reset' regulations: 'Red Tape Rollback'

Georgia’s Republican lieutenant politician has introduced a program akin to the DOGE efforts taking spot with the Trump administration that helium tells Fox News Digital volition bring much-needed authorities accountability to his state.

"I ain my ain concern employing thousands of people, and I cognize 1 of the biggest things that we tally into arsenic tiny concern owners is regulatory burdens. And that's regulatory burdens astatine the local, authorities and national level," Georgia Lt. Gov. Burt Jones told Fox News Digital of his Red Tape Rollback Act of 2025.

"We've been fortunate present successful Georgia to beryllium the No. 1 authorities to bash concern for 11 years running, and if we privation to enactment similar that, we're going to person to ever beryllium retooling however we bash things, improving however we bash things, making authorities much efficient, making it effort to enactment much similar business."

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Jones introduced the program past twelvemonth but was incapable to determination it done the Georgia Legislature. But helium said Trump’s DOGE efforts provided an accidental to brace the program with the caller DOGE marque that has go progressively fashionable with Republicans and immoderate Democrats successful Washington, D.C. 

"That's what the essence oregon the genesis down reddish portion rollback, which is our authorities mentation of DOGE that the Trump medication is doing, and I'm excited astir what they're doing with the archetypal week of that administration," Jones said. 

Georgia Lt. Gov. Burt Jones is pushing a statewide program successful Georgia that's akin to DOGE efforts by the Trump administration. (Getty Images)

Jones explained to Fox News Digital what the priorities of his statewide DOGE program would entail if successfully passed done the Legislature.

"The archetypal happening we'd similar to bash is fundamentally person a reset connected each regulatory issues astatine each authorities agency. And what I mean by that is, alternatively of ever adding much regulations, we'll commencement backmost astatine zero and past the agencies conscionable adhd what they need," Jones said. 

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"There are truthful galore regulations that are connected the books that person been enactment determination from decades worthy of, you know, legislative laws that were passed oregon whatever. What our measure volition bash is fundamentally person a reset conscionable similar you would connected a machine crippled oregon whatever. 

"And accidental there's a batch of things that are unneeded, whether we're talking astir connected the acquisition front, connected the situation front, transportation, immoderate it mightiness be, conscionable the full blanket. Have a reset, and past marque the agencies archer america what regulations are needed and which ones they're gladsome to get escaped of."

Georgia Lt. Gov. Burt Jones (Elijah Nouvelage/Bloomberg)

Jones said successful a press release his measure volition "also springiness legislators the quality to petition a ‘Small Business Impact Analysis’ for pending authorities to amended recognize however a measure mightiness interaction Georgia’s astir important occupation creators."

Jones told Fox News Digital that statewide spending discarded is astatine a overmuch "smaller scale" than national authorities waste, but helium said helium hopes his statewide efforts volition assistance radiance a airy connected discarded successful the national government. 

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Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy are heading the Department of Government Efficiency. (Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images)

"There's nary question D.C. is the elephant, truthful to speak, successful the country that has gotten truthful bloated done duplicate agencies, duplicate services, immoderate it mightiness be," Jones said. "There's a batch of ways to trim the abdominous astatine the national level. 

"State government, it won't beryllium thing similar what you person astatine the national level, but there's decidedly inefficiencies that request to beryllium addressed, whether it's successful licensing, permitting processes, immoderate it mightiness be, regulatory codes and things that request to beryllium repealed. Those are each things that are going to beryllium connected the table."