In February, the most recent data available, goods worth $39.5 billion were trucked across the Texas-Mexico border in both directions. Those goods included computers, vehicles, electrical machinery and related parts.
Abbott ordered the increased inspections along the border after the Biden administration announced plans to end the Title 42 emergency health order used to immediately expel undocumented immigrants found crossing into the U.S. during the COVID-19 pandemic.
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I never have and will never VOTE for hot wheels. Apparently his knowledge of Government is to hurt poor people and make the rich richer. He has done more harm than good for us. Look at his record when the gird failed people died, he created the border mess, voted no health care.
Infuriating on every level. Abbott has become a tyrant.
FAKE NEWS!!
econklin4 That’s no big deal to Abbott and his band misogynist. They are so busy taking away womens rights all in the name Christianity, $4B is just a drop in the bucket.
And 10s of millions of Americans are OK with that because it was a GOP initiative.
BHallBabyDoc Is that in the budget?
BetoORourke
This is actually accurate.
Tx-GQP don't care when their reps waste money. They don't even blink when Ken Paxton flushes money down the toilet for frivolous lawsuits.
Wise up Texans!
Way to own the libs!
GregAbbott_TX shame on you . Too bad you don't take seriously the welfare of your constituents.
Just as DeSantis' feud with Disney will cost FL taxpayers untold millions of $$. Republicans seem to gravitate to vindictive tyrants as their leaders.
NotABlindTrust Texas Republicans cannot govern. The Republican Governor pulled a stunt that did not lower property taxes, did not lower gas prices, did not support teachers, did not improve healthcare, did not support LEO, but only cost 36,000 jobs and $4.6 Billion. That is 4,600,000,000.00!
Is this your headline?
Republicans create more conspiracies than actual policies.
VoteOutHate VoteOutAbbott VoteOutGOP TurnTexasBlue BetoForTexas BetoORourke votesaveamerica BlackVotersMtr votevets LWV WhenWeAllVote
Well Texas, stand up for yourselves
Fascist always messing with capitalism wake up! Or lose the freedom to do business the way you want.
46mingo LockHimUp
How’s that feel Texas? BetoForGovernor
Intentionally done for GOP talking points for midterms.
Asassybella could you tell us please why Texans keep rewarding this kind of behavior?
look_gc
Is there ANYTHING Evangelicals can't rationalize in their quest for power?
AbortAbbott BetoForGovernor
Another economist says Bidens open border is costing the country multiples of that figure.
But he proved a point 🤦♀️😂
And because it’s Texas they will still blame Biden and vote GOP.
NewJeffCT They don't care about the money
Good job Gov. ?
BetoORourke BetoForGovernor
All of this to own the libs. Beyond stuuuuuupid.
Yeah, but how many libs got owned?
And his Covid policy has resulted in 88K deaths and counting. GregAbbott_TX is doing a swell job. What a great guy.
36,000 jobs. He’s a cruel monster
Abbott and DeSantis are doing a good job costing their constituents money.
This was his intention
CarriWeatherwax Why would Governor Abbott want to damage his own state? Why does he hate Texas?
Abbott is competing with deSantis in idiocy. Let's see which huge company in TX would abbot harass and do even worse theatrics than Ron in Florida with Disney. TX and FL competing in idiocy, cruelty, autocracy, stupidity who would say?
BetoORourke Shame on Greg Abbott!
AbbottFailedTexasAgain BetoForTexas
It also stopped the shipment of several thousand pounds of drugs. When is the government going to do its job a protect our southern border so Gov. Abbott does not have to spend the state's money to do it?
TurnTexasBLUE
talent
Time to fire GregAbbott_TX Texans are tired of being roadkill on his endless PoliticalCrusades. Texas is ready for BetoORourke
AlanTudyk Between Texas and Florida, Republicans are trying really hard to tank the recovering economy; likely to blame it on Biden.
HC_Richardson Political stunt
Abbott purposely sabatoged America's supply chain, and is threatening to do it again. Hold him responsible- file lawsuits and vote him out.
Sue him, I say!
But of course it's Biden and the democrats fault 🙄
It's as if Abbott and DeSantis are competing to see who can sink their state faster.
Hey Texas! You get what you vote for. Vote better.
FadnessTod Way to go DeSantisDestroysFlorida
Never forget
And they didn’t apprehend any immigrants or drugs.
Would love to hear how many would-be immigrants and illegal drugs they seized.
McneJames 4.2 billion dollar stunt
Just how special of GovAbbott , just continues to Fail the People of Texas
Which economist the one that said the share market will collapse under trump them guys
But y’all will re-elect him
ndduncan59 Republicans - all the financial acumen of a spendy child with impulse control issues...
BetoORourke I hope the job loss goes to 36,001 when we vote abbott out of office!!!!! abbottgottago
JudgeClayJ Stable genius jr
Governor is a self absorbed POS
Keep voting this buffoon Abbott in Texas!
BetoORourke Nice work Greg GovAbbott. What's your next dumbass political stunt? Your border initiative cost Texas taxpayers $Billions. The inspection debacle $4.2B. You don't seem to have much regard for taxpayer money.
Can you impeach/repeal him? Look, just spitballing but the rest of the states can change their representatives when they go bad. Hoping Texas can fix this too. Texas deserves better. Vote them out.
WTG GregAbbott_TX ! Nice job! BetoForTexas!!
What a success....
Pile up the evidence BetoORourke Use this and all the bizarre things Republicans have done. Just don’t get too leftist, if you want to win Texas. Play the same cards. Forget about endorsements from Bernie, AOC (I like them both). We cannot blow this chance.
BetoORourke
BetoORourke What is his appeal? Really.
Sabotaging the nation’s food supply is domestic terrorism.
BetoORourke Vote for Beto, Texans
BetoORourke Damn. I need that dude's job security.
BetoORourke Why isn’t there a class action suit against Abbott for damages? Surely there are grounds and plenty of truckers impacted. AbbottIsTheCrisis
BetoORourke You mean GOPs have not blamed Biden for this yet?! Give them time. It will all soon be Biden’s fault!
Yeah but he.... owned a lib?
HC_Richardson Who cares? They have plenty of money there and Abbot like DeSantis & trump will do stuff just to piss People off. It’s fun for them when they have power like that.
Texas, you best give Greg Abbott his walking papers.
HC_Richardson Doesn't it seem that for DeSantis, Abbott, Trump, and their followers, absolutely nothing matters but what and whom they hate?
HC_Richardson Republicans destroy jobs and the US economy, ALWAYS. We always have to clean up after crooks like GovAbbott.
Time and time again, this is Republican style leadership. Crash and burn.
What will it take for Texans to get rid Abbott, seriously what one thing good he has done anyone in the state.
Yeah, but how many illegals did he apprehend? Zero!
The 36000 will just blame democrats.
AbbottsTexasShitShow
Oh
Happened under the Biden administration so we're all good.
I cannot BELIEVE you left out the word 'stunt'.
and I imagine the cartels are giggling at him even now
Louder!
By the way, that is over a BILLION dollars MORE than all US aid to Ukraine to fight back against the Russian invasion.
Vote that fucker out!
MeAndMyFerrets Breaking the economy to own the libs.
AbbottFailedTexasAgain
Elections coming up… we will see.
And, what economist said that?
Doesn't sound very business friendly.
KardaszMichelle
SenTedCruz you OK with this? Silly me..of course you are, you're a member of the cult!!
sncarney18
MLM_2525
I see now why Texas Republicans need all the guns. So they can shoot off their own foot.
Kind of padding the truth.
Stupid stunt, greg. GregAbbott_TX GovAbbott
Illegal immigration costs Americans $140 billion annually. How much did we save? We can’t let non-members onto the course.
GovHowardDean Great job GovAbbott (sarcasm) Stop pandering to the right wing MAGAt crowd. Sheesh
Lose Billions and jobs... to own libs
VoteBlueUSA2022
Just don't forget about it when the VOTE comes. Abuse of Power Remember he allowed 750 people die in the Cold. He allowed the high prices on heat. The Problem never fixed
Awesome. And did they even find anything?!?!
TheSGTJoker
Well, Texans, you think you might want to do something about this A__H__E
This makes me sick!!!! Vote Blue!!!!
I’m sure TexasGOP will blame Biden for unemployment and inflation.
But he will still get votes because most voters don’t care. It’s Party over country
CarolYMorrisse1 I'm writing a short story about Republicans: Republicans can't govern. The End
I call BS on this number. How does trucks being a day late for a couple weeks equate to 36,000 jobs?
JohnCornyn DanPatrick
Why isn’t this being reported on regular news stations?! Honestly, I’m starting to believe that Abbott is influencing local news stations! jasonwheelertv JasonWhitely cbs11doug MeredithNBC5 PatDoneyNBC5
The Democrats build jobs and economies back better and the INEPT GOP just keeps destroying it. What does the INEPT GOP have against jobs and revenue? Serious question. Did the INEPT GOP ever see an economy that they didn't drive into recession?
Holy shit.
rhonda_harbison A vote for Abbott isn't about the economic health and welfare of Texas, it's now just phony cultural war issues intended to inflame hatred and create scapegoats.
rhonda_harbison Jesus Christ give the man award for the worst governor
MrColinBoyd And the geniuses of Texas will probably re-elect him anyway.
But he made his point right...joke...🃏
What an absolute buffoon that man is.
Sounds like the winning to me. Boy oh boy he stuck it to the libs with that one...
Biden's failed border policy will cost us far more in money and jobs, as it gets progressively worse. Texas is under seige. Your unsubstantiated hysteria is an obvious defection tactic. That's why your paper is more valuable as a toilet paper replacement, than a valid news source
The owners of those lost goods should sue Texas, and Abbott personally.
Boy, Texans must be so rich that they can afford to lose $4.2 billion and thank their governor for the privilege.
_alex_joshua be like
What a failed publicity stunt
And how much has Biden & Harris' OPEN BORDER cost this country ?...Oh, I forgot...Mayorkas,Biden, & Harris said that the border is closed.
And yet most Texans will vote for him again. I guess they love that he wasted their tax dollars, has left store shelves empty and last year did nothing about Texans freezing to death. I guess carrying around unregistered firearms is more important to them.
TheRickWilson
“Economists say” 😂😂
How in the hell can this not be criminal?
Good. His state his choice his election. Hope it helps Beto.
Typical GovAbbott. Texas citizens are pawns to be starved or frozen. Anything to keep the wealthy wealthier.
Are these the same idiots that said there’d be no inflation if Trump and Biden gave away a bunch of money?
ALWAYS
AbbottIsTheCrisis
Your paper will probably endorse him anyway.
DebraVaello And he is threatening to do it again. BetoForGovernor
Pulling numbers out of your ass.....
The high cost of “conservatism” They’ll be ok with it bc it their free to be an *sshole tax
So you don't agree with Mr. Abbott helping those illegal people get to Washington, where they'll be pampered and spoiled, and made star's? You are pointing your finger at the wrong guy, aren't you? You are in Dallas, but you must be Democrat.?
Time for PlanB RepublicansAreTheProblem
Surely Texans would be willing to lose their job and spend billions of dollars to promote their Governor without being asked, right? Well, I know some who would. Hopefully everyone else will vote against Abbott. VoteBlueIn2022
HockleyCLiberal H! But we should be willing to suffer ‘some pain’ for a safer border,says he. Of course, HE is not suffering at all. Honestly, I would vote for anyone not named Abbott...he is unhinged.
TEXAS BORDER INSPECTOR
And he claims to care about us regular old Texans ggeezz I can sure with alot less of his type of caringp
Governor Abbott is an embarrassment to Texas. The political games being played around the state are embarrassing and gives the impression around the country that Texas is dumber than Florida. The wasteful spending by Governor Abbott along with the disruption of commerce is awful.
BS
GovAbbott needs to report this on his next political campaign filing. Question is...does he count it as a giant campaign contribution by tens of millions of Texans?...or does he count it as a giant campaign expenditure by Texas taxpayer dollars? 🧐🤔
JennyTXDem How is he not arrested for this?
And of course the economist that push back on Abbott’s efforts on the border are either democrats or Rino’s. But all you (media) want to do is label them as economist and not shed light on what political affiliation the majority of them are.
Cripples will cripple us.
FakeNews Fake
VoteBlue2022 TexasDeservesBetter BetoORourke is ready to govern on day one VoteBlue2022
The Perryman Group is the “think tank” the Democrats go to when they need a study or studies invented to get TV time. Harris County Judge Lina Hidalgo uses them all the time to analyze her programs. Disgusting.
Dmn says the Invasion os good for you.
Open the borders. We need workers.
All to get on Fox News for 3 minutes
Let's go GregAbbott_TX . Classic example of a politician that has lost his mind. Who is he representing?
Would love to talk to those 36k who lost their jobs
It’s crazy! Illegal immigration is at all time highs.
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