{"id":363988,"date":"2026-07-07T13:58:08","date_gmt":"2026-07-07T13:58:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/363988\/"},"modified":"2026-07-07T13:58:08","modified_gmt":"2026-07-07T13:58:08","slug":"texas-governor-denies-spacex-favoritism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/363988\/","title":{"rendered":"Texas Governor Denies SpaceX Favoritism"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>WASHINGTON, July 6, 2026 \u2013 Texas Gov. Greg Abbott&#8217;s (R) office is denying favoritism for SpaceX.<\/p>\n<p>In a response to a report by public radio&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.houstonpublicmedia.org\/articles\/infrastructure\/2026\/07\/02\/556078\/texas-tx-broadband-development-musk-starlink-rural-internet-governor-abbott\/?ref=broadbandbreakfast.com\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">KUT News<\/a>, Abbott\u2019s press secretary Andrew Mahaleris told the station, \u201cGov. Abbott supports getting high-speed internet to rural Texans as quickly and cost-effectively as possible. Low Earth orbit satellite service is essential for the most remote areas where traditional fiber is too expensive and slow to build.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>        To read full article, Join Breakfast Club or Breakfast Club Plus<br \/>\n            <a class=\"gh-btn\" data-portal=\"signup\" style=\"color:#65A5D6\">Subscribe now<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Already have an account? <a data-portal=\"signin\">Sign in<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"WASHINGTON, July 6, 2026 \u2013 Texas Gov. Greg Abbott&#8217;s (R) office is denying favoritism for SpaceX. In a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":363989,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[27,29,28],"class_list":["post-363988","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-texas","tag-texas","tag-texas-headlines","tag-texas-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/363988","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=363988"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/363988\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/363989"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=363988"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=363988"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=363988"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}