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Greg Abbott: “There are real tangible assets such as the miles of border…”

Featuring: Greg Abbott, Republican | Governor of Texas

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Gov. Greg Abbott on State of the State, School Choice, Property Taxes, Border Security.

Published | Video Starts at 14:41

And if you look at all the other amount of money that's spent, especially money that could be going to states like New York and California, this is a drop in the bucket. And then in addition to that, There are real tangible assets such as the miles of border wall that we built, the miles of non border wall, but razor wire border barrier that we built, these bases and things like that. There's about $6 billion worth of tangible assets that we can transfer to the United States of America. So it's not so much reimbursing the state of Texas, it's paying for what did for the federal government that the federal government is now able to acquire. Right. (14:41–15:00)

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Asserts that Texas has built $6 billion worth of border-related tangible assets that can be transferred to the federal government.

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