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Kelly Hancock: “Governor Abbott said, I want this out of state government. I…”

Featuring: Kelly Hancock, Republican | State Senator, Texas, District 9

Texas Governor Greg Abbott Holds 'Get-Out-The-Vote' Event In La Grange As State's Primary Nears

Published February 19, 2026 | Video Starts at 06:27

Governor Abbott, after seeing what had happened in the courts with higher education and DEI and what we did as elected officials in getting DEI out of education, Governor Abbott said, I want this out of state government. I want this out of our agencies. And I got in there and I looked and I said, there's a program called hub, historically underutilized business Hub. It might as well be spelled D E I. (06:27–06:32)

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Asserts that Governor Abbott directed the removal of DEI from state government and agencies.

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“There's $11 billion that's coming back to refund Texas for the money we spent.”
Texas Governor Greg Abbott Holds 'Get-Out-The-Vote' Event In La Grange As State's Primary Nears | Uploaded February 19, 2026 | 05:35-05:42
“We also started in September, launching the largest school choice program in the nation, Texas Education Freedom Accounts.”
Texas Governor Greg Abbott Holds 'Get-Out-The-Vote' Event In La Grange As State's Primary Nears | Uploaded February 19, 2026 | 07:30-07:38
“We're well over 110,000 students that for the first time get to decide what is best for them and utilize those resources.”
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“We spent billions of your dollars securing the border under the Biden administration because the federal government was exempt from any…”
Texas Governor Greg Abbott Holds 'Get-Out-The-Vote' Event In La Grange As State's Primary Nears | Uploaded February 19, 2026 | 05:20-05:32
“I got in there and I looked and I said, there's a program called hub, historically underutilized business Hub. It might as well be spelled D…”
Texas Governor Greg Abbott Holds 'Get-Out-The-Vote' Event In La Grange As State's Primary Nears | Uploaded February 19, 2026 | 06:32-06:44
“We got rid of dei. No sense talking about it in rhetoric. It's gone.”
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“We're going to be in our first year, the third largest program in the country.”
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“We ran into schools that were way too friendly to foreign adversaries and had connections to foreign adversaries.”
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“We also ran into schools that had hosted, had events and were way too friendly to terrorist organizations.”
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“Not a single dollar will go to an entity, a school, anything associated with a terrorist organization or foreign adversaries.”
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