candycorn
Diamond Member
Gov. Abbott authorizes $250M transfer to jumpstart border wall construction
Abbott will speak at 3 p.m. from the Texas Capitol building, and he’s expected to elaborate on comments he made on the podcast “Ruthless,” saying he plans to ask for donations to …
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Governor Abbott is taking money from the Prison System to pay for the wall he wants to build in Texas. Apparently the money from Mexico never came through.
From the source:
"The $250 million will come out of the Texas Department of Criminal Justice’s allocations for Fiscal Year 2023 and go to the Disaster Funds for Fiscal Year 2022, according to the letter."
A quarter of a billion dollars will be spent by one state to build a wall that is not going to stop illegal immigration. Hilarious.