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Kelly Hancock: “There was no way, as long as I'm controller, that we're…”

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

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Texas Governor Greg Abbott Endorses Republican Candidates During Rally In Allen, Texas

Published | Video Starts at 46:56

We weren't letting your tax dollars go there. And so they may have met the criteria. There was no way, as long as I'm controller, that we're going to spend a single dollar, a single cent, and send it to any entity, school or tutoring service, whatever, that recognizes and friendly with our foreign adversaries or terrorist organization. We stopped it. It hasn't happened. And frankly, you got states looking at, like, Florida looking at us and saying, oh, how do we do what they did? (46:56–47:16)

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Asserts a commitment to not fund entities friendly with foreign adversaries or terrorist organizations.

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