{"id":306397,"date":"2026-05-23T22:58:10","date_gmt":"2026-05-23T22:58:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/306397\/"},"modified":"2026-05-23T22:58:10","modified_gmt":"2026-05-23T22:58:10","slug":"this-week-in-texas-impact-of-trump-endorsement-local-budget-woes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/306397\/","title":{"rendered":"This Week in Texas: Impact of Trump endorsement, local budget woes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Tom Abrahams Image\" class=\"hsDdd NDJZt sJeUN IJwXl \" data-testid=\"prism-image\" draggable=\"false\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/15664086_KTRK-Tom-Abrahams-Bio-2025-IMG.jpg\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Saturday, May 23, 2026 9:44PM<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"data:image\/svg;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAABAAAAAJCAQAAACRI2S5AAAAEElEQVR42mNkIAAYRxWAAQAG9gAKqv6+AwAAAABJRU5ErkJggg==\" alt=\"This Week in Texas: Impact of Trump endorsement, local budget woes\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao MvWXB TjIXL aGjvy ebVHC \">This Week in Texas, Election Day is almost here&#8230;again&#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">We break down the latest developments in the race for the US Senate between incumbent John Cornyn and Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton. Our political insiders weigh in on President Trump&#8217;s last-minute endorsement ahead of the runoff, and they outline what to watch for on Election Night, May 26.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">Plus, a conversation with newly elected Houston City Councilmember Nick Panzarella.  He shares his thoughts on the proposed trash fee included in the mayor&#8217;s 7.5 billion dollar budget.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC eTIW sUzSN \">Also, we have a report from Nick Natario about the budget issues potentially facing Harris County. He details Judge Lina Hidalgo&#8217;s warning on This Week in Texas.<\/p>\n<p>Copyright \u00a9 2026 KTRK-TV. All Rights Reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Saturday, May 23, 2026 9:44PM This Week in Texas, Election Day is almost here&#8230;again&#8230; We break down the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":127516,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[111004,27,29,28],"class_list":["post-306397","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-texas","tag-111004","tag-texas","tag-texas-headlines","tag-texas-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/306397","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=306397"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/306397\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/127516"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=306397"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=306397"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=306397"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}