California Gov. Gavin Newsom said Texas Gov. Abbott cut $211 million in mental health spending. Abbott shifted that money from a state agency to a border initiative, but it was replaced by federal COVID-19 CARES Act dollars.
"For the agency, it was a dollar for dollar," Hicks said."It was just a swap."how the state was using COVID-19 money
Hicks told House budget writers in July that federal COVID-19 money was a crucial part of the"matrix" of decisions that helped augment Operation Lone Star spending,"If we didn't have federal dollars, we would've had to make different decisions," she told the Appropriations Committee. "It's a perfectly legitimate budgetary maneuver as long as you follow Texas law, which he did," Jones said.
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