Some good news for taxpayers in Harris County: The Texas Supreme Court has temporarily blocked a $1 million program that gives left-wing NGOs money to cover attorney fees for illegal aliens.<\/p>\n
The program was pushed through Commissioners Court last year in a 4-1 vote. By November, it was already facing a legal challenge from Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton. The program will now be put on pause until that lawsuit plays out.<\/p>\n
Harris County Precinct 3 Commissioner Tom Ramsey, the lone \u201cno\u201d vote on the issue, said of the program: \u201cThat\u2019s not what county government is set up to do. On this particular issue, there are all sorts of legal issues, and I said that when they brought this up last year.\u201d<\/p>\n
Unfortunately, Ramsey predicted that the county will continue to fight for this program in court, which likely means more wasted taxpayer money. \u201cNot only are we spending over a million dollars doing something we shouldn\u2019t, we\u2019re going to spend a large sum of money defending that,\u201d he said. \u201cThis makes no sense.\u201d<\/p>\n
Ramsey also called this out as the exact type of program being pushed by radical-left socialists and communists across the United States right now.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Some good news for taxpayers in Harris County: The Texas Supreme Court has temporarily blocked a $1 million…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":355538,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[56,58,57,66,223,27],"class_list":["post-355537","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-houston","tag-houston","tag-houston-headlines","tag-houston-news","tag-local","tag-news","tag-texas"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/355537","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=355537"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/355537\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/355538"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=355537"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=355537"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=355537"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}