President Trump To Visit Atlanta Next Week: Report

ATLANTA, GA — President Donald Trump plans to visit metro Atlanta next week to showcase his administration’s transportation agenda and announce a policy change designed to speed infrastructure projects, the AJC reported.

According to the newspaper, Trump will make the announcement on Wednesday at the UPS airport hub in Hapeville. While there, he’ll highlight a process to accelerate environmental reviews for roads, bridges and highway projects, such as an I-75 expansion.

This will be Trump’s ninth trip to Georgia since taking office.

The executive order Trump will unveil is designed to remove environmental regulations on the processing of environmental permits for infrastructure projects, WXIA reports.

Trump's last visit to Atlanta was in March where he met with officials and toured the Atlanta-based Center for Disease Control and Prevention. The controversial trip to highlight the CDC and administration's work on the coronavirus drew criticism when the president said anyone could be tested at a time state's were scrambling to set up COVID-19 testing programs and procure protective gear for health-care workers.

After crowds were sparse at a Tulsa campaign style rally last month that health officials say may have led to at least 500 coronavirus cases, the president has done little traveling other than a visit to Mount Rushmore ahead of the Fourth of July. His Atlanta stop will not be a rally, rather an official visit to the UPS site.

It comes in a state with a tightening U.S. Senate race for Kelly Loeffler and days after two U.S. Supreme Court rulings about Trump's finances and litigation that troubled the president.

The U.S. Supreme Court on Thursday ruled that President Trump cannot block New York state prosecutors access to his tax returns and other financial records. The 7-2 decision upholds a Manhattan District Attorney subpoena for 8 years of Trump's personal and corporate financial documents.

While the ruling makes it more likely that Trump's tax returns are eventually made public, it's also likely the records will be shielded from the public under grand jury secrecy rules until after the November general election, The New York Times reported.

The decision also narrows a sitting president's immunity from criminal investigations.

In a separate 7-2 ruling, the justices kept a hold on banking and other documents about Trump, family members and his businesses that Congress has been seeking for more than a year, according to The Associated Press. The court said that while Congress has significant power to demand the president's personal information, it is not limitless.