Acting Governor Dan Patrick urged Texans to make final preparations and announced that he has added 81 counties to the state’s Hurricane Beryl Disaster Declaration as storm forecasts have shifted the expected landfall north and east of previous projections. This brings the total number of Texas counties included in the state’s disaster declaration to 121 counties. Upon updating the disaster declaration, Acting Governor Patrick issued the following statement
Governor Abbott and President Lai explored opportunities for Texas and Taiwan to work together to strengthen trade relations and investment in critical economic drivers like the semiconductor, energy, and electric vehicle manufacturing industries. The Governor also highlighted the countless economic opportunities Texas offers companies from across the globe, including a highly skilled workforce, low taxes, and the best business climate in the United States.
The use and production of natural gas has resulted in billions of dollars being available to fund schools, road and other basic needs, is the dominant reason for declining CO2 emissions in the power sector and is one of the most affordable energy sources available. Every family has benefited from a robust natural gas sector and LNG exports play an ever-growing role in a stronger Texas and America."
In February 2023, the Department of Defense issued a memorandum prohibiting uniformed Service Members from participating in the unfurling of large flags at sporting events because those flags are often unfurled and displayed horizontally. The U.S. Flag Code prohibits carrying the American flag horizontally. Sen. Ted Cruz's "Updating National Flag Use to Reaffirm Liberty" (UNFURL) Act would amend the U.S. Flag Code and rescind the DOD's policy at sporting events & patriotic observances.
During a recent briefing from the White House press room, the president’s press secretary, Karine Jean-Pierre, denounced videos putting President Biden in an unflattering light as “cheap fakes” and “misinformation.” These entertaining videos – which certainly do not show the president in the most favorable light – will undoubtedly be the topic of debates by the pundit class during this year’s presidential election.
In recent testimony before the Senate Business and Commerce committee, ERCOT CEO Pablo Vegas testified that Texas may need 150,000 megawatts of power to power our grid by 2030. That is only six years away. Currently, Texas typically has approximately 85,000 megawatts of power available counting wind, solar, coal, nuclear, and natural gas. If the new estimate is correct, the updated numbers provided by Mr. Vegas call for an immediate review of all policies concerning the grid.
Congressman Tony Gonzales (TX-23) voted for the final passage of three Fiscal Year 2025 (FY25) Appropriations bills in the U.S. House of Representatives. Congressman Gonzales is a member of the House Appropriations Committee and helped craft H.R. 8774, the Defense Appropriations Act for Fiscal Year 2025, H.R. 8752, the Homeland Security Appropriations Act for Fiscal Year 2025, and H.R. 8771, the State, Foreign Operations, and Related Programs Appropriations Act for Fiscal Year 2025.
American families are fed up with the Biden Administration’s consistent refusals to address the crisis at our southern border and the risks it poses to our national security. Thankfully, House Republicans are taking action. We passed legislation that counters President Biden’s border crisis by providing $600 million for the construction of the border wall, investing in border security technology, forcing Secretary Mayorkas to adhere to U.S. border laws, and supporting 22,000 Border Patrol agents.
Texas Comptroller Glenn Hegar today said state sales tax revenue totaled $3.94 billion in June, 0.4 percent more than in June 2023. Total sales tax revenue for the three months ending in June 2024 was up 0.5 percent compared with the same period a year ago. Sales tax is the largest source of state funding for the state budget, accounting for 57 percent of all tax collections.
At a rally in Raleigh, North Carolina, following his universally criticized debate performance, President Biden attempted to draw a distinction between himself and Donald Trump: " I know how to tell the truth. I know right from wrong." Knowing right from wrong presumes a standard that is universal, not personal. Try arguing with the supermarket cashier that the price for the pound of meat you are trying to buy is not what is written on the label but what you think it should be.
Millions of Americans witnessed far more than simply the implosion of Joe Biden's campaign Thursday. The corruption of the Democrat Party was also laid bare for all of America to see. There's now confirmed evidence that Mr. Biden’s unfitness for office has long been common knowledge among Democrat Party Officials – as well as the nation's sock-puppet media. Democrats have deliberately & intentionally lied to the American Public about who's running the White House – and have redefined the Democrat's idea of "The Big Lie."
“The Supreme Court did the right thing in returning decision making to elected members of Congress – the way the Constitution envisioned it and ending a massive expansion of the regulatory state,” said Sen. Ted Cruz following the U.S. Supreme Court’s reversal of the so-called Chevron Case precedent set in 1984 that allowed unelected and unaccountable bureaucrats to wield power and interpret or set regulations that acted as law, shifting decision making from Congress to the permanent bureaucracy.
The President therefore may not be prosecuted for exercising his core constitutional powers, and he is entitled, at a minimum, to a presumptive immunity from prosecution for all his official acts. That immunity applies equally to all occupants of the Oval Office, regardless of politics, policy, or party," the opinion states.
“Protecting our citizens, defending our freedom, and providing for the nation's common defense is the first and most important job of the federal government – but unfortunately, President Biden’s self-inflicted open-border crisis has brought our nation’s most imminent threat right to our doorstep,” said Lubbock Congressman & House Budget Committee Chairman Jodey Arrington, as the U.S. House of Representatives passed three major Appropriations Bills to ensure our nation's troops have the resources & supplies needed.
If Texas were a country, it'd now be the 8th-Largest Economy in the world, ahead of Canada and Russia. “The saying ‘I wasn’t born in Texas, but I got here as fast as I could’ is truer than you might think – especially when it comes to business and job creation,” said Texas Comptroller Glenn Hegar, as he released the latest examination of 10 statistics illustrating how Texas' continuing trend of strong economic and population growth confirmed what we’ve always known. Only a decade ago, Texas was the world's 12th-largest economy.
As all of America saw during Thursday night's debate, Joe Biden couldn’t solve a Wheel of Fortune puzzle if it were his name – missing only a “B” and the category was “Current Presidents.” It’s hard to pick an example of the Sock-Puppet Press, but I’ll use MSNBC’s Joe Scarborough & the “Morning Joe.” The media outlets are untrustworthy of trust – and evidently they're just plain STUPID as well! Just days ago they swore “In private that Joe Biden's energetic and on the ball – sharp as a tack.” Now the America knows different.
Leaders in Congress knew. Leaders in the White House knew. Even leaders in the sock-puppet media knew – but have been covering it up or lying to the American people for years. Now everyone – even the most hard-core liberal of the Democrat Party's "Remake America" and "Our Democracy" left knows that Joe Biden is in a serious and rapid state of mental decline. If anyone doubted it, last night's debate proved the point: Vladimir Putin, Kim Jung-un, and every petty dictator around the world knows – and Americans have been lied to.
“I watched the debate, and can't remember a more heart-breaking moment in American presidential campaign politics in my lifetime – precisely because of what it revealed: Joe Biden has no business running for re-election,” wrote liberal New York Times columnist Thomas Friedman. “He had a test to meet to restore the confidence of the country, and he failed,” said former Obama advisor & CNN Analyst Van Jones. It’s impossible to imagine that the man we saw on stage last night is actually running The White House.