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Kelly Hancock: “I got in there and I looked and I said, there's a program…”

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 06:32

… 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. It was a race based and gender based program that gave preferential treatment simply based on race, rather than treating all of you equally. We got rid of dei. (06:32–06:44)

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Asserts that the historically underutilized business (HUB) program was akin to DEI.

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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.”
Texas Governor Greg Abbott Holds 'Get-Out-The-Vote' Event In La Grange As State's Primary Nears | Uploaded February 19, 2026 | 07:51-08:01
“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
“Governor Abbott said, I want this out of state government. I want this out of our agencies.”
Texas Governor Greg Abbott Holds 'Get-Out-The-Vote' Event In La Grange As State's Primary Nears | Uploaded February 19, 2026 | 06:27-06:32
“We got rid of dei. No sense talking about it in rhetoric. It's gone.”
Texas Governor Greg Abbott Holds 'Get-Out-The-Vote' Event In La Grange As State's Primary Nears | Uploaded February 19, 2026 | 06:53-06:59
“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.”
Texas Governor Greg Abbott Holds 'Get-Out-The-Vote' Event In La Grange As State's Primary Nears | Uploaded February 19, 2026 | 08:17-08:26
“We also ran into schools that had hosted, had events and were way too friendly to terrorist organizations.”
Texas Governor Greg Abbott Holds 'Get-Out-The-Vote' Event In La Grange As State's Primary Nears | Uploaded February 19, 2026 | 08:26-08:36
“Not a single dollar will go to an entity, a school, anything associated with a terrorist organization or foreign adversaries.”
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