Harris County Judge Lina Hidalgo and Commissioner Rodney Ellis clash with Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton over the 'Uplift Harris' guaranteed income program, sparking a legal battle that threatens to delay financial aid for 1918 low-income families.
Harris County Judge Lina Hidalgo blasting legal intervention from the Attorney General of Texas which threatens to de-rail the guaranteed income program known as "Uplift Harris" before a single dollar is distributed. "This is not just cruel, it's not just laughable, two pages double-spaced, it's dangerous to Democracy," said Hidalgo.
FOX 26 Houston is now on the FOX LOCAL app available through Apple TV, Amazon FireTV, Roku, Google Android TV, and Vizio!Simply not so, says Republican State Senator Paul Bettencourt, who contends the proposed program to randomly distribute surplus, one-time, federal pandemic aid dollars violates Texas law and amounts to an act of political patronage, with no checks and balances on how the taxpayer funds are spent."It's preposterous. You can't do this with the public's money.
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