With Donald Trump returning to the White House, Gov. Greg Abbott and Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick have both recently signaled new openness to winding down the state’ border security operation.
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On the campaign trail, Trump vowed to crack down on illegal immigration by reimplementing policies from his first term while starting new ones,last week that Texas will have to continue its border security measures as a “stopgap effort” during the time it takes Trump to implement his border and immigration policies. But once they are in place, Abbott said, Texas “will have the opportunity to consider” repurposing the state money it has plowed intoin the upcoming legislative session.
“When you spend government funds, constituencies develop among those funds, and that's one of the reasons it's hard to cut back on spending,” Henson added. Two public policy experts told the Tribune that it seems unlikely Texas will be reimbursed by the federal government for its border spending, even with Trump in the White House and Republican majorities in both chambers of Congress, because Trump also promised to cut government spending — and money is always tight in D.C.
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