The Texas Tribune reports Pres. Donald Trump is expected to send 400 members of the Texas National Guard to other states “to ensure safety for federal officials,” Gov. Greg Abbott said Sunday on social media.
On Sunday evening, Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker posted on X, saying that the president is ordering the deployment of Texas National Guard members to locations like Illinois and Oregon, calling it “Trump’s invasion.” The announcement followed protests at ICE facilities in these states that have led to arrests.
Pritzker also called on Abbott to refuse any coordination.
Less than an hour later, the Texas governor responded that he “fully authorize[s]” such a move by the president.
GOP Rep. Wesley Hunt Enters US Senate Primary
Rep. Wesley Hunt, R-Houston, entered the Republican primary for U.S. Senate on Monday, complicating an already contentious race between two of the biggest names in Texas Republican politics, according to reporting from The Texas Tribune.
Hunt, a close ally of President Donald Trump, has laid the groundwork for a potential run for months.
While the second-term congressman spent the summer publicly avoiding the fray between Sen. John Cornyn and Attorney General Ken Paxton, groups affiliated with Hunt dropped some $6 million on ads boosting his profile around the state.
And Hunt’s allies have been busy pressing the case that he would carry stronger appeal than Cornyn among the MAGA-dominated primary base, while bringing none of Paxton’s political baggage to the general election.
“The U.S. Senate race in Texas must be about more than a petty feud between two men who have spent months trading barbs,” Hunt said in a statement. “With my candidacy, this race will finally be about what’s most important: Texas.”
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Texas Stock Exchange Gets Federal OK
The Texas Stock Exchange on Tuesday crossed its latest hurdle toward becoming a direct competitor to the dominance of the New York Stock Exchange and the Nasdaq.
The announcement that the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission had approved the Dallas-based startup to operate as a national exchange was met with celebration by Texas lawmakers, including Gov. Greg Abbott, who declared “Texas is swiftly becoming America’s financial hub.”
Read more at the Texas Tribune.
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Feds to Offer Undocumented Minors $ to Return Home
McALLEN (AP) — The Trump administration said Friday that it would pay migrant children $2,500 to voluntarily return to their home countries, dangling a new incentive in efforts to persuade people to self-deport.
U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement didn’t say how much migrants would get or when the offer would take effect, but The Associated Press obtained an email to migrant shelters saying children 14 years of age and older would get $2,500 each. Children were given 24 hours to respond.
The notice to shelters from the U.S. Health and Human Services Department’s Administration for Families and Children did not indicate any consequences for children who decline the offer. It asked shelter directors to acknowledge the offer within four hours.
ICE said in a statement that the offer would initially be for 17-year-olds.
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Burden of Proof
Inside one woman’s fight against Texas’ Medicaid Estate Recovery Program. By Julie Poole.
In April 2024, Anne-Marie Boyd got a call from her brother, who sounded frantic after opening a letter from Health Management Systems, Inc. (HMS), an Irving company that serves as the State of Texas’ Medicaid estate recovery contractor.
“They’re going to take the house away,” he told her. Her older brother was 60 and, years prior, had suffered a brain injury that made it extra challenging for him to understand the letter’s dense language, so he read it aloud. (He declined an interview, and Boyd requested he not be named.)
Alarmed, Boyd took off on the four-hour drive from her home in Hot Springs, Arkansas, to the tiny northeast Texas town of Hughes Springs, where her brother lived. She felt sick from the stress. Their mother’s death from a heart attack two months earlier had come as a shock, and the funeral was scheduled in only days. On top of that, she now feared that her brother, who’d spent the past 14 years living in the family home and taking care of their mom, would soon have nowhere to go.
