{"id":82844,"date":"2025-12-10T07:06:15","date_gmt":"2025-12-10T07:06:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/82844\/"},"modified":"2025-12-10T07:06:15","modified_gmt":"2025-12-10T07:06:15","slug":"texas-attorney-general-launches-statewide-investigation-into-budget-transparency","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/82844\/","title":{"rendered":"Texas attorney general launches statewide investigation into budget transparency"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text | article-text\">AUSTIN, Texas (KSWO) &#8211; Texas\u2019 Attorney General is launching a statewide investigation into budget transparency at the municipal level.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">As part of the statewide initiative, AG Ken Paxton has requestion the budget and financial documents from nearly a thousand Texas Cities.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">He wants to enforce state law barring cities who do not follow audit transparency requirements from raising taxes above the no new revenue rate.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Among the many cities under review are Wichita Falls, Dallas, Fort Worth and more.<\/p>\n<p class=\"copyright |\">Copyright 2025 KSWO. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"AUSTIN, Texas (KSWO) &#8211; Texas\u2019 Attorney General is launching a statewide investigation into budget transparency at the municipal&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":82845,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[12115,2050,39999,39998,12110,2349,223,27,4479,29,28],"class_list":["post-82844","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-texas","tag-7news","tag-budget","tag-financial-document","tag-gvernment","tag-kswo","tag-money","tag-news","tag-texas","tag-texas-attorney-general","tag-texas-headlines","tag-texas-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82844","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=82844"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82844\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/82845"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=82844"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=82844"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=82844"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}