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(NewsNation) — With President-elect Donald Trump returning to the White House, Gov. Greg Abbott and Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick person signaled openness to cutting the state’s spending connected borderline security, the Texas Tribune reported.
The erstwhile president has continuously hinted astatine respective actions helium plans to instrumentality erstwhile helium returns to office, cardinal among them being wide deportation.
Abbott told reporters last week that Texas “will person the accidental to consider” repurposing the authorities wealth it has plowed into Operation Lone Star. Texas has allocated $11 cardinal to Operation Lone Star since it launched successful 2021.
Abbott’s bureau had asked lawmakers to approve different $2.9 billion in the upcoming legislative league and present says OLS wealth could beryllium utilized for things similar spot taxation cuts oregon education, the Texas Tribune reports.
“President Trump volition supply a much unafraid borderline than immoderate president successful the past of the United States of America,” Abbott said a time aft the election. “I’ve had backstage talks with the president, and he’s going to beryllium stronger and amended astatine securing the borderline than helium was successful his archetypal term, which was precise beardown and effective.”
Patrick, different apical elected authoritative successful Texas, said that Trump’s triumph could mean shifting spending priorities for the state.
“We had to bash everything we could to support our citizens,” Patrick said successful an interrogation with WFAA-TV successful Dallas. “We’re going to beryllium capable to instrumentality a batch of that wealth present and enactment it backmost to our taxpayers, for roads, for water, for education, for wellness care, for each the things that we request that Joe Biden forced america to walk due to the fact that helium was letting millions of radical transverse the border.”
