State officials have repeatedly had to move money from other departments to keep Gov. Greg Abbott’s multibillion-dollar border mission running this year.
Texas National Guard and Department of Public Safety officers position themselves on the banks of the Rio Grande in El Paso on Dec. 20., The Texas Tribune’s daily newsletter that keeps readers up to speed on the most essential Texas news.
Maj. Gen. Thomas Suelzer, who leads the agency, revealed the latest funding gap in the current fiscal year while also asking the Senate Finance Committee, which writes the state budget, for $1.8 billion to keep the Texas National Guard on the border mission for the next two-year budget cycle, which starts in September.
The mission has proven costly. In September 2021, the Texas Legislature approved nearly $2 billion to ramp up the border operation intended to curb the number of migrants crossing from Mexico. But the Texas Military Department quickly burned through its share of the funding after Abbott increased the number of troops on the mission. As a result, the governor has repeatedly had to transfer money from other agencies to float the mission through the end of the current budget cycle.
Suelzer, who leads the agency, told the Senate Finance Committee that the newly requested $459.3 million is expected to come through Abbott’s office again.
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