Texas AG sues to halt Harris County's $500 monthly payments to 1,928 low-income residents, calling the $20.5M program an unconstitutional 'socialist experiment.
by JUAN A. LOZANO Associated PressFILE - Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton has filed a lawsuit to stop a guaranteed income program in Harris County , which plans to provide $500 monthly payments to 1,928 low-income residents for 18 months using $20.5 million from the American Rescue Plan , arguing that it violates the Texas Constitution . Texas' attorney general filed a lawsuit on Tuesday seeking to stop a guaranteed income program set to start this month for Houston-area residents.
Federal pandemic funding has prompted dozens of cities and counties across the country to implement guaranteed income programs as ways to reduce poverty, lessen inequality and get people working. State Sen. Paul Bettencourt, a Republican from Houston who had asked Paxton to look into the county's program, called it an "unbelievable waste" of taxpayer dollars and "Lottery Socialism."
"This lawsuit from Ken Paxton reads more like a MAGA manifesto than a legal document," said Harris County Commissioner Rodney Ellis, who spearheaded the program, known as Uplift Harris.
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