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Tucked into the folds of the federal government's latest $1.5 trillion spending bill lies more than $280 million to fund initiatives for Texans. Those projects range from expanding the San Antonio police department's mental health unit and improving flood mitigation in coastal counties to planting a sustainable community garden at a high school and building a Gandhi museum in Houston.

TEXAS — Families are fleeing home to protect their children. These aren't refugees from war-torn countries, they're Texans. Since the Texas Legislature passed numerous laws restricting trans rights, families have considered moving out of state.

Spectrum News 1 has learned after Gov. Greg Abbott's directive to investigate gender-affirming care for trans children as child abuse, even more families are planning to say goodbye to their home state.

Baylor College of Medicine hosted U.S. Rep. Sylvia Garcia (TX-29) for a check presentation from the Congressional Community Project Funding program that will support Baylor and Harris Health's long-COVID care clinics. The funding is part of the Bipartisan Omnibus Appropriations Bill.

WASHINGTON, D.C. – The Texas Democratic delegation in Congress want President Biden to intervene to stop Gov. Greg Abbott's decision to impede commercial truck traffic heading north out of Mexico.

Abbott told Texas Department of Public Safety troopers to inspect all northbound trucks as soon as they had crossed commercial land ports in Texas. He said this was to improve border security and check the safety of the trucks. The trucks have already been inspected by U.S. Customs and Border Protection.

Baylor College of Medicine on Wednesday was awarded $1.1 million from the federal government to open a new long-COVID clinic in the Houston area.

Baylor already operates a Post COVID Care Clinic at the McNair campus in the Texas Medical Center. The funds will help the medical school expand services to uninsured patients at Harris Health System's Strawberry Clinic, located in East Harris County.

In reaction to US sanctions against State Duma members, Russia blacklisted 398 members of the US House of Representatives. This was reported on the Russian Foreign Ministry's website on Wednesday, April 13.

A new funding project that's a part of the Bipartisan Omnibus Appropriations Bill doled out over $10 million to health care institutions — and a Houston initiative is cashing in on a chunk of that funding.

EL PASO, Texas (KFOX14/CBS4) — El Paso Representative Veronica Escobar sent a letter to President Biden urging him to address Texas Gov. Greg Abbott's commercial vehicle inspection policy at the border.

The letter, which was co-signed by the entire Texas Democratic Congressional Delegation, comes on the heels of Governor Abbott's recent directive to increase inspections of commercial vehicles at land ports of entry.