A feud between Gov. Greg Abbott and Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick over a property tax cut plan impasse grew meaner Wednesday as Patrick lobbed accusations that the...
Patrick wants 30% of the money spent to reduce school property taxes used to more than double the size of mandatory homestead exemptions. Abbott wants a broader approach more favorable to businesses.
“As we get closer and closer to this Sunday, all of these bills that have yet to be signed face the possibility, if not the probability, that they’re going to be vetoed,” Abbott said. “Governor Abbott suggests he is threatening to destroy the work of the entire 88th Legislative Session – hundreds of thousands of hours by lawmakers doing the work the people sent us to do,” Patrick said.
Phelan and the House quickly obliged the governor, passing a tax cut law exactly to his specifications and adjourned. A compromise seemed possible. At a press conference in Houston on Tuesday, Patrick alluded to a recent 90-minute meeting with the governor.Questions over Abbott using his veto power to punish the Senate initially arose from his veto of a bill from Bettencourt on Tuesday.
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