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Greg Abbott: “Not a single dollar will be taken from public schools for…”

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INTERVIEW Gov. Abbott talks about securing the border, school choice and sports gambling

Published February 7, 2025 | Video Starts at 09:29

When this session ends, public education funding will be at an all time high. Teacher pay will be at an all time high. Not a single dollar will be taken from public schools for school choice. The money separate. Just like transportation and road building, water as well as power, those are separate funds from education. So is school choice. (09:29–09:34)

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Asserts that no public school funds will be used for school choice.

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Greg Abbott

“There's a proposal for Texas to spend another $6.5 billion in securing the border for the two-year period beginning in September.”
INTERVIEW Gov. Abbott talks about securing the border, school choice and sports gambling | Uploaded February 7, 2025 | 00:15-00:27
“Illegal immigration across the border is slowed to just a trickle.”
INTERVIEW Gov. Abbott talks about securing the border, school choice and sports gambling | Uploaded February 7, 2025 | 00:53-00:58
“The United States is kind of shorthanded as it concerns Border Patrol agents and ICE agents.”
INTERVIEW Gov. Abbott talks about securing the border, school choice and sports gambling | Uploaded February 7, 2025 | 01:30-01:36
“I've authorized our National Guard to assist Border Patrol in apprehensions of people crossing the border illegally.”
INTERVIEW Gov. Abbott talks about securing the border, school choice and sports gambling | Uploaded February 7, 2025 | 01:37-01:45
“I've authorized the Texas Department of Public Safety to be embedded with ICE as ICE are making arrests across the state of Texas.”
INTERVIEW Gov. Abbott talks about securing the border, school choice and sports gambling | Uploaded February 7, 2025 | 01:44-01:53
“We have more than 100 miles of easements that more border wall could be built that we could convey to the United States of America.”
INTERVIEW Gov. Abbott talks about securing the border, school choice and sports gambling | Uploaded February 7, 2025 | 02:08-02:16
“We were able to identify approximately 4,000 prison beds in the state of Texas at certain locations that would be available to [the federal…”
INTERVIEW Gov. Abbott talks about securing the border, school choice and sports gambling | Uploaded February 7, 2025 | 03:07-03:20
“The National Guard has been working autonomously under [my direction] for the past four years.”
INTERVIEW Gov. Abbott talks about securing the border, school choice and sports gambling | Uploaded February 7, 2025 | 04:17-04:24
“They've [National Guard] been authorized to detain, apprehend people crossing the border illegally.”
INTERVIEW Gov. Abbott talks about securing the border, school choice and sports gambling | Uploaded February 7, 2025 | 04:33-04:39
“We want to secure the border for the next 40 years.”
INTERVIEW Gov. Abbott talks about securing the border, school choice and sports gambling | Uploaded February 7, 2025 | 05:03-05:06
“We're working on a new borders are.”
INTERVIEW Gov. Abbott talks about securing the border, school choice and sports gambling | Uploaded February 7, 2025 | 05:25-05:27
“Gambling is unconstitutional [in Texas].”
INTERVIEW Gov. Abbott talks about securing the border, school choice and sports gambling | Uploaded February 7, 2025 | 06:23-06:29
“Whatever the approach is to expand gaming in Texas requires a constitutional amendment.”
INTERVIEW Gov. Abbott talks about securing the border, school choice and sports gambling | Uploaded February 7, 2025 | 07:16-07:23
“School Choice exists in 32 states already.”
INTERVIEW Gov. Abbott talks about securing the border, school choice and sports gambling | Uploaded February 7, 2025 | 07:58-08:02
“In those [32] states we haven't seen a collapsing public education at all.”
INTERVIEW Gov. Abbott talks about securing the border, school choice and sports gambling | Uploaded February 7, 2025 | 08:02-08:07
“There's absolutely no proof or no evidence that school choice leads to closing of campuses.”
INTERVIEW Gov. Abbott talks about securing the border, school choice and sports gambling | Uploaded February 7, 2025 | 08:07-08:14
“One reason for that movement [of families] is because property taxes are way too high.”
INTERVIEW Gov. Abbott talks about securing the border, school choice and sports gambling | Uploaded February 7, 2025 | 08:48-08:53
“When this session ends, public education funding will be at an all time high.”
INTERVIEW Gov. Abbott talks about securing the border, school choice and sports gambling | Uploaded February 7, 2025 | 09:22-09:27
“Teacher pay will be at an all time high.”
INTERVIEW Gov. Abbott talks about securing the border, school choice and sports gambling | Uploaded February 7, 2025 | 09:26-09:30