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What to know: The city of San Antonio is facing a $10 million budget shortfall for the upcoming fiscal year. If officials don’t tighten their belt, then the deficit could “grow to $31 million by the 2026-2027 fiscal year, and $148 million by fiscal year 2027-2028.”
The TPPF take: The city has only itself to blame for its budget woes.
“Past research shows that city spending has been growing much faster than ideal—and it’s been happening for a long time. In fact, from 2013 to 2022, the average annual growth rate of the city’s All Funds budget was almost 5%. By comparison, population and inflation increased only 3.4% over the same period,” says TPPF’s James Quintero. “Unsustainable spending growth has brought us to this point. Now it’s time to get serious and cut spending.”
Costs associated with children start long before children are born – in fact, they can start right with the positive pregnancy test. SB 942 by Senator Bryan Hughes ensures that the pregnant and new moms in Texas are afforded support through this vital phase in child rearing.
What to know:CNN and other media outlets took the time to blur out the faces of criminal illegal immigrants posted on the White House lawn.
The TPPF take: The media can’t as easily cover up their crimes, or the damage done by the Biden border crisis.
“The media’s narrative of ‘innocent’ illegal immigrants being wronged here only works if the public doesn’t know the details,” says TPPF’s Robert Henneke. “That’s why Texas’ efforts to bus illegal immigrants to the blue ‘sanctuary’ cities in recent years was so successful. For New York City, Denver and the District of Columbia, the immigration issue was no longer about faceless abstractions in far-off flyover country. Suddenly, the problems that come with mass migration were both very clear and very present to them.”
The TPPF take: CRT is not presented as just one theory; it is presented as fact.
“CRT is an anti-American ideology based on the false notion that America was founded to further slavery and that every American institution is built on white supremacy,” says TPPF’s SherrySylvester. “Consequently, the 1619 Project asserts that America’s real beginning was not at Plymouth Rock, but instead in 1619 when the first Africans arrived in Virginia. The mission of CRT is to pre-empt American history and discredit all other accounts of our past.”
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