Senate Bill 25, by Sen. Lois Kolkhorst, requires food labels to warn Texas consumers which ingredients are banned in other countries starting in 2027. SB 25 also requires daily physical education for students from kindergarten to eighth grade and prohibits the removal of recess, physical education, and sports practice for disciplinary reasons. SB 25 establishes a nutrition advisory council at the Department of State Health Services with a focus on metabolic health, functional medicine, and chronic disease.
Governor Abbott noted the momentum that school choice has picked up in the Texas House and thanked Speaker Dustin Burrows for his support to pass a universal school choice program. Additionally, Governor Abbott highlighted Texas' robust homeschooling program to ensure parents remain in charge of their child's education and debunked lies being spread by school choice opponents that school choice will interfere with homeschooling pathways.
Congressman Tony Gonzales (TX-23) hosted Laurent Bili, the French Ambassador to the United States, in San Antonio. Ambassador Bili is the most senior French government official ever to visit San Antonio. Through various stops across the city, Congressman Gonzales and Ambassador Bili highlighted the importance of the U.S.-France relationship and emphasized the strength of this partnership as it relates to the San Antonio community.
This week Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Lee Zeldin announced his agency will take 31 actions to roll back onerous Biden and Obama era regulations. Included in these actions will be a reconsideration of the 2009 ill-named 'endangerment finding', which made greenhouse gases, including carbon dioxide, pollutants subject to agency regulation. This finding provided the legal framework to regulate CO2 and enabled the Net Zero movement to gain traction both in the United States and worldwide.
Over the last three decades, elite American universities have engaged in economic, political, social, and cultural practices that were often unethical, illegal -- and suicidal. They did so with impunity. By the 1970s, non-profit universities had dropped pretenses that they were apolitical and non-partisan. Instead, they customarily violated the corpus of iconic civil rights legislation by weighing race, gender, and sexual orientation in biased admissions, hiring, and promotions.
“SpaceX is investing 100s of millions of dollars in our Bastrop facility, and incredible innovation and high-tech manufacturing is happening in Texas as a result of Gov. Abbott’s leadership,” said SpaceX President & COO Gwynne Shotwell after Abbott announced the 5th Texas Semiconductor Innovation Fund grant of $17.3 million for a Semiconductor R&D and Advanced Packaging Facility just Southeast of Austin. The effort will create over 400 jobs, involves more than $280 million in Capital Investment, and will be the largest of its kind in North America.
"There's bipartisan agreement that American Flags should be produced in America – using American materials – but loopholes in existing law still allows Chinese manufacturers to sell flags, including through fraudulently-branded websites. This bill would close those loopholes. Congress should take it up and expeditiously pass it.” said Texas Sen. Ted Cruz, introducing his bill to ensure that American flags displayed on Federal Property or procured by Federal Agencies are manufactured in the United States.
"Ensuring the safety & security of every Texan – especially our children – is a top priority for me and the Texas Senate, so I want to thank Committee Chair Joan Huffman for her prompt effort to advance this crucial legislation,” said Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick earlier today, after Sen. Huffman's Senate Bill 260 to increase School Safety Funding was passed. “Today we acted to permanently enhance school safety by $500 million – and that funding is in addition to the $366 million allocated for ongoing support," said Patrick.
"The growing doctor shortage is a crisis we can’t afford to ignore," said Texas Congressman Brian Babin (TX-36,) as he and Congresswoman Chrissy Houlahan (PA-06) reintroduced their "Resident Education Deferred Interest Act" (The REDI Act) to address a growing doctor shortage, make medical education more affordable, and boost health care outcomes in Southeast Texas and across America. "By passing the REDI Act, we can remove a major financial barrier for future physicians & dentists."
President Trump is serious about reducing the bloated size of government and its spending. And, after his popular & triumphal "Joint Address to Congress" last week, he and Congressional Republicans are pushing to keep spending in the last 6 months of the year at about the same levels of the first 6 months while they work out what should be spent – and what should not. Waste, Fraud & Abuse have been exposed everywhere, and the ball is in Senate Democrat's Court. The choice is theirs – and America IS watching.
On Tuesday evening, by a vote of 217-213, the House voted almost entirely along party lines to pass a Continuing Resolution (CR) that President Donald Trump indicated his support for over the weekend. Vice President JD Vance also spoke to House Republicans earlier on Tuesday to rally support - and the push worked, as only one Republican joined all the Democrats, save one, in opposing the measure to keep the Federal Govt open.
The "Telehealth Expansion Act" is a critical step forward in making healthcare more accessible. It allows millions of Americans with high-deductible health plans to receive telehealth services without first meeting steep out-of-pocket costs. In a state as vast as Texas, where rural residents often travel for hours to see a doctor, telehealth access will be a game-changer.
Governor Greg Abbott highlighted the widespread support for a universal school choice bill for all Texas families at Parent Empowerment Day at the Texas Public Policy Foundation in Austin. As the Texas House Public Education Committee began taking public testimony on House Bill 3, the Governor urged all Texans to voice their support and testify for school choice.
Congressman Tony Gonzales (TX-23) led a bipartisan letter with 43 of his colleagues, including several U.S. Representatives seated on the House Committee on Agriculture and House Committee on Appropriations Subcommittee on Agriculture, urging the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) to expand eradication and containment efforts relating to the New World screwworm (NWS).
This is what it looks like when the the President does his job, and when he keeps the heat on the Federal Government to do its job — Securing our Border, Protecting our Homeland, and Providing a bold Vision for America’s Future. The crisis at our border spiraled out of control under the Biden Administration — thankfully, under President Trump, apprehensions at the border are down 94% from this time last year. From national security to medical research, President Trump is about ensuring our country remains strong.
In 2023, the Department of Health & Human Services issued a “Gender Identity Non-Discrimination & Inclusion Policy for Employees and Applicants.” Among many other harmful changes, the policy compelled speech by requiring HHS Employees & Contractors to call other employees by their “preferred pronouns” – even when the pronouns did not align with biological reality. “The Biden White House stretched anti-harassment guidance, but Congress should take action to ensure it never happens again,” said Sen. Cruz
Governor Greg Abbott announced that Schneider Electric USA, Inc. (“Schneider Electric USA”), a wholly owned subsidiary of Schneider Electric SE, will modernize and expand their electric equipment manufacturing facilities on their El Paso campus. The multi-million-dollar project will create 300 new jobs. A Texas Enterprise Fund (TEF) grant of $1.5 million has been extended to Schneider Electric USA.
President Trump delivered a powerful and inspiring "Joint Address to Congress" last week that showcased a stark contrast to the past four years – and in just weeks he's moved at record speed to cut reckless spending, secure our border, unleash American energy, and restore common sense to Washington. American has the opportunity to prosper under President Trump, and his unwavering commitment to put "America First" is already making a difference for Texas families.
