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AUSTIN — Gov. Greg Abbott's decision to shuffle $500 million from several state agencies to plug a yawning shortfall in his border operation has sparked assertions that federal COVID-19 relief money is being used to fill in the gap.
Seven Democratic members of Congress this week asked U.S. Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen to examine whether Abbott is flouting federal rules governing how money sent to the states can be used to cover such pandemic-related expenses as "premium pay" for essential workers so the governor's multibillion-dollar initiative remains afloat.
AUSTIN — Gov. Greg Abbott's decision to shuffle $500 million from several state agencies to plug a yawning shortfall in his border operation has sparked assertions that federal COVID-19 relief money is being used to fill in the gap.
Seven Democratic members of Congress this week asked U.S. Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen to examine whether Abbott is flouting federal rules governing how money sent to the states can be used to cover such pandemic-related expenses as "premium pay" for essential workers so the governor's multibillion-dollar initiative remains afloat.
Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) announced that the House Democratic Steering & Policy Committee has recommended that Rep. Marcy Kaptur (D-Ohio) serve on the Agriculture Committee and Rep. Sylvia Garcia (D-Texas) join Armed Services. Both still need to get approval from the full Democratic Caucus.
FORT HOOD, Texas — Rep. Sylvia Garcia announced Wednesday the passing of bill H.R. 224, a bill that will rename a Houston post office after the late Vanessa Guillen.
SPC. Vanessa Guillen was last seen on April 22, 2020, while she was a private stationed at Fort Hood.
Before her time at Fort Hood, SPC. Guillen was a constituent of Rep. Garcia.
Rep. Garcia referred to the slain specialist as a rising star.
A bill to rename a southeast Houston post office after slain U.S. Army Spc. Vanessa Guillén passed in the U.S. House of Representatives on Wednesday.
The measure introduced by Guillén's representative, Democrat Sylvia Garcia, in January, was debated on the House floor Tuesday and was approved in a vote on Wednesday afternoon, according to Garcia's office.
During House Floor remarks on Wednesday, Rep. Sylvia Garcia (D-TX) spoke about abortion.
The Biden administration is scrapping planned auctions of drilling rights in the Gulf of Mexico and Alaska's Cook Inlet -- a move that deepens uncertainty over the future of the US government's offshore oil leasing program.
The Interior Department said in an emailed statement Wednesday it "will not move forward" with two Gulf lease auctions that were planned under former President Barack Obama "as a result of delays due to factors including conflicting court rulings that impacted work on these proposed sales."
In House floor remarks, Rep. Sylvia Garcia (D-TX) argued for abortion rights.
Democratic members of Texas' Congressional delegation have asked the Biden administration to review if Texas is misusing federal pandemic relief money to fund Gov. Greg Abbott's controversial border mission.
The request to U.S. Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen comes after Abbott's late April announcement of Texas' reallocation of nearly $500 million from state agencies to Operation Lone Star, a multi-billion dollar border-security effort Abbott launched in 2021 in response to what Abbott said were President Biden's "open-border" policies. The operation has sent hundreds of Texas Department of Public Safety and state National Guard units to the border.
Former President Donald Trump repeatedly pressed national security officials on whether China had a secret weapon to launch hurricanes at the United States while he was in office, three sources told Rolling Stone.
Trump repeatedly asked national security officials whether China had secret technology capable of creating a man-made hurricane, two former senior administration officials and another source briefed on the comments told the outlet. Trump also inquired whether such an attack would amount to an "act of war by a foreign power" and whether the U.S. could retaliate militarily, according to the report.