Extreme budget cuts, rogue legal reforms, and media bias against law enforcement have resulted in significant recruitment and retention challenges for state and local law enforcement agencies nationwide. These factors are not only preventing law enforcement from carrying out their duties to protect Americans, but they are also impeding police agencies across the homeland from having the resources to train their officers properly.
Attorney General Paxton joined a multistate amicus brief that is in support of a U.S. Army veteran seeking full access to the educational benefits earned from his patriotic service to the country and multiple tours of duty. The petitioner in the case is a veteran who fought in Afghanistan and Iraq, was injured in the line of duty, and received a number of commendations for his service, including a Bronze Star.
"Whoever out there's been benefiting from abusing this, you are on notice — stop these abuses NOW!” exclaimed State Sen. Paul Bettencourt as he passed House Bill 2071 by Rep. Jacey Jetton out of the Texas Senate with bipartisan support. “The testimony I heard in the Senate Local Government Committee on PFCs was downright disturbing," said Bettencourt of the current abuses.
The power-hungry Democrat enemy hates us – and is dead serious about converting its hatred into policy. From legalizing crime, to weaponizing the government against us, from disenfranchising us at the ballot box, to disarming us in our homes, to gagging us on social media and leveraging the regime media to hide the truth and amplify the lies, this is a cold war where we become serfs if we don’t win.
The 16 new terrorism suspects apprehended by U.S. Customs & Border Agents at the Southern Border in April follows 11 being apprehended in March, 16 being apprehended in February, after 15 were apprehended in January. The alarming numbers obliterate all previous records – and Border Patrol believes that as more are caught, even more are getting away – such as FBI terrorism suspects.
This week, our Capitol Report covers the critical priorities passed since last week’s deadline. House Republican members proved they are ready to invest in Texas water development and infrastructure, deliver sustainable property tax relief, protect Texas children from irreversible gender modification, and save women’s sports in the Lone Star State. Texans can be assured relief is on the way!
The seasonally adjusted civilian labor force increased by 62,184 to reach a series-high 14,960,308 people, while the unemployment rate held steady at 4.0 percent. Texas added 33,300 positions to reach another series-high job count at 13,871,100 total nonfarm jobs. Texas job count increased more than any other state, with 534,600 positions added since April 2022.
In April 2022, Gov. Greg Abbott directed the Texas Division of Emergency Management to begin chartering buses and transporting just a small portion of the overall number of migrants flooding across the Southern Border to the self-declared "Sanctuary City" of Washington, DC. Soon after, Abbott added New York City, Chicago & Philadelphia as Sanctuary City drop-off locations. Add Denver to the list.
"Doctors and Hospitals should not be pushing mutilative, irreversible ‘gender transitioning’ procedures that will negatively impact innocent children for the rest of their lives," said Texas Att. Gen. Ken Paxton, announcing the launch of an investigation into Texas Children’s Hospital. This investigation comes on the heels of Paxton's investigation into Dell Children’s Medical Center over unlawful behavior related to “gender transitioning.”
We must recognize and appreciate the sacrifices made by these heroes in blue. Texas is a state that values law and order and our law enforcement officers work tirelessly to uphold these principles. They face a wide range of challenges, from tackling violent crime and drug trafficking to managing traffic safety and responding to emergencies.
He fueled his early Senate career with homages to Southern Democrat Segregationists, and even gave the eulogy for former Klansman & Democrat Sen. Robert Byrd. Far from galvanizing the public, Joe Biden's maniacal racial demagoguery is turning it off. In recent polls, only 37% of Independents now support him, while 70% of the public oppose his even running for a 2nd Term. So now he's turned to what he's done for decades - inflammatory racial demagoguery.
“I’m proud to secure common sense regulations that're good for producers – while protecting our nation's natural resources," said Sen. Ted Cruz, after the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's (EPA) approval of new regulations under the Clean Water Act for offshore oil & gas operations. "These discharge regulations are key to the Lone Star State, and finalizing these responsible rules is a big victory for Texans & American jobs."
"Without customer protections and spending oversight that go hand-in-hand with regulation, this unproven model has the potential to add billions to the market – and without a firm cost cap, it threatens to significantly increase prices on consumers without meaningfully improving reliability,” said Texas Association of Manufacturers president & CEO Tony Bennett, while releasing the "ERCOT Market Reform Alternatives" study.
In letters sent to each of his fellow Governors, Texas Gov. Greg Abbott requested support in responding to the rapidly escalating border crisis through the Emergency Management Assistance Compact, which enables states to provide assistance and share resources with another state in response to a disaster or emergency situations.
“The Constitution is clear. If the Federal Government fails to repel an invasion – of deadly drugs in this case, in my opinion enabled by the drug cartels – they have the right to enforce the laws, to detain, and to secure the border. President Biden's going to pander to the Left, and millions more are going to come in if we Texans don’t exercise, and all sovereign states, our right of self-defense," said Cong. Jodey Arrington.
The Texas Workforce Commission (TWC) has announced the kickoff of this year’s Summer Earn & Learn (SEAL) Program to assist students with disabilities aged 14-22 earn a paycheck while acquiring skills and professional experience through work-based learning. In the summer of 2022, the SEAL Program hosted 2,516 students across the state, at 1,263 employer sites. Here are three unique success stories.
Gary Moretti and his fiancée booked 30 rooms at Newburgh, NY's Crossroads Hotel for their upcoming June 24th wedding – but New York City Mayor Eric Adams quickly demolished their plans and forced the hotel to cancel the couple's Legal Contract so he could implement his new "Illegal Immigrant's 1st, Everyone Else Last" policy. Nearly two dozen struggling Homeless Veterans also got the boot, some who'd served in Vietnam or Afghanistan.
"While Americans suffer the consequences of chaos at the border caused by the Biden White House, (non-profit) NGOs receive hundreds of millions of taxpayer dollars through Federal Grants to provide transportation for illegal aliens to anywhere in the U.S. they want," said House Judiciary Chairman Jim Jordan, along with Cong. Lance Gooden & Tom McClintock after money was found to have been misspent by non-profits.
