A program meant to help Harris County residents living below the federal poverty line is being criticized by the Texas Attorney General, saying it's 'unconstitutional.'
– The Texas Attorney General has filed a lawsuit on a program launched by Harris County , which he calls “plainly unconstitutional.”and Commissioner Rodney Ellis introduced the $20.5 million investment program back in 2023. The idea was to help struggling families through a $500-a-month grant to support household needs.
“This scheme is plainly unconstitutional,” Paxton said in a press statement. “Taxpayer money must be spent lawfully and used to advance the public interest, not merely redistributed with no accountability or reasonable expectation of a general benefit. I am suing to stop officials in Harris County from abusing public funds for political gain.”
County Attorney Christian Menefee fired back on X, formerly known as Twitter, calling Paxton’s lawsuit “nothing more than an attack on local government and an attempt to make headlines.”
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