Following a mass shooting in Allen, Texas Gov. Greg Abbott said better mental health support — not gun laws — is key to curbing gun violence. But viral tweets...
reported in May 2022 that Abbott and state officials used $1 billion in COVID-19 relief money for Operation Lone Star.found that during a state Senate committee hearing in April 2022, Sarah Hicks, an Abbott budget adviser, acknowledged the budget transfer.Texas’ Democratic congressional delegation raised questions aboutsaid Congress never prohibited states from such budget swaps. The $2.
Hicks told House budget writers in July that federal COVID-19 money was a crucial part of the “matrix” of decisions that helped augment Operation Lone Star spending,“If we didn’t have federal dollars, we would’ve had to make different decisions,” she told the Appropriations Committee. Under state law, Abbott had authority to reallocate funds as needed, Rice University political science professor Mark Jones told PolitiFact.
“It’s a perfectly legitimate budgetary maneuver as long as you follow Texas law, which he did,” Jones said. Abbott was not required to replenish the money he shifted away from the state agencies, but chose to replenish them to avoid a net loss.Abbott was on firmer ground using state money to fund Operation Lone Star than using CARES Act to directly fund the border initiative, Jones said.Texas has ranked near the bottom of states on mental health spending, according to Mental Health America, a nonprofit advocating for people with mental illness..
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