A "breaking news!" flash just popped up on my phone.
There's apparently a big, weepy editorial (not breaking news) purporting to be hard hitting investigative journalism that *GASP* REVEALS THAT ABBOT USED COVID RELIEF MONEY TO BUILD ELEMENTS OF THE BORDER WALL!!!! *GASP*
https://www.thenation.com/article/politics/texas-covid-money-operation-lone-star/Obviously the person making those allegations (and I hope to hell that it's true) is completely against such a use of funds.
But, interesting, he provides no information on how Covid relief funds were used elsewhere in the country... say such as Chicago ($280 million went to the Chicago Police Department), New York (used Covid relief funds to push critical race theory in public schools, as did California and Illinois), Washington, DC, or myriad other liberal controlled bastions of "property action and thought."
Interesting that the author makes NO references of the Federal vaccine mandates targeted at US citizens (but NOT immigrants). Sounds to me that securing the border against unvaccinated, untested potential Covid carriers is a logical use of Covid relief funds, and hopefully Abbot's administration will spin it that way.
I'm also betting, given the problems that the border crisis has been giving Texas for the first two years of the Biden administration, that Beto's team is going "this was not a particularly good time for this to come out because it's going to backfire on us really badly."
Be VERY interesting to see if they even mention it at all...