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Greg Abbott

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Greg Wayne Abbott is the 48th Governor of Texas, having taken office on January 20, 2015. A member of the Republican Party, Abbott previously served as the Attorney General of Texas from 2002 to 2015, where he focused on issues such as consumer protection and immigration enforcement. As governor, he has prioritized conservative policies, including tax cuts, education reform, and gun rights.

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  1. I will not respond to them at all until they step up and do what’s right, and they acknowledge their fault in the fraud that took place, and they fully repay the United States of America for the fraud they committed.2 sources2026huffpost.com
  2. You guys are such bad lawyers. You showed up unprepared, uninformed & unpersuasive. You don't know the law & it showed.2 sources2026cbsnews.com
Aug 28, 2026

Minn. is the literal definition of a sanctuary state because you refuse to assist in enforcing immigration laws.

foxnews.com
Aug 28, 2026

You guys are such bad lawyers. You showed up unprepared, uninformed & unpersuasive. You don't know the law & it showed.

cbsnews.com
Aug 26, 2026

Abbott also accused developers of not working "in collaboration with the state," or "with local governments," adding they "basically dug their own grave for the problem that's been caused for them, and that's why they got the backlash they…

reason.com
Aug 26, 2026

The public backlash is understandable, Abbott said, because data centers "pop up in places that nobody ever heard of before, until they started the construction."

reason.com
Aug 24, 2026

They will not be building a wall or a fence in Big Bend National Park.

salon.com
Aug 23, 2026

I established guidelines & guardrails to protect Texas communities.

dailycaller.com
Aug 23, 2026

My directive has halted up to 1,800 data center projects.

dailycaller.com
Aug 22, 2026

It is clear that these government-owned airports have used — and continue to use — funds charged to the public to finance, maintain, advertise, and operate Muslim-only spaces on property that should be open and accessible to all citizens.

foxnews.com
Aug 22, 2026

Airports can no more offer Muslim-only bathroom spaces than they can maintain white-only bathrooms.

foxnews.com
Aug 22, 2026

These ablution stations single out one subset of the population for special treatment based on religion.

foxnews.com
Aug 21, 2026

They would not be building any wall, any fence, any barrier like that.

cbsnews.com
Aug 20, 2026

We are taking a hard look at how data centers impact our power grid and electricity costs.

foxnews.com
Aug 18, 2026

I will not respond to them at all until they step up and do what’s right, and they acknowledge their fault in the fraud that took place, and they fully repay the United States of America for the fraud they committed.

huffpost.com
Aug 18, 2026

Well, first of all, I don’t trust Tim Walz on anything, let alone something like this.

floridaphoenix.com
Aug 15, 2026

Texas will not allow illegal religious discrimination at taxpayer-funded facilities.

foxnews.com
Aug 15, 2026

These ablution facilities appear designed to single out one subset of the population for special treatment based on religion. That is illegal.

foxnews.com
Aug 15, 2026

Just as the government cannot favor the secular over the sacred, it also cannot favor one religious view over all others.

foxnews.com
Aug 15, 2026

Government-owned airports cannot favor one religion over all others.

foxnews.com
Aug 15, 2026

The federal and state constitutions prohibit government from facilitating this sort of discrimination.

foxnews.com
Aug 13, 2026

The state's laws protect every child born in Texas and guarantee their right to life.

cbsnews.com
Aug 10, 2026

You know what they did? They squandered it, and then they changed their plan and then they were indecisive about what to do.

propublica.org
Aug 5, 2026

Our top priority is to protect Texans' safety and quality of life.

foxnews.com
Aug 4, 2026

We can only give them a little time more before the state of Texas has to take over and micromanage that city.

propublica.org
Aug 4, 2026

What Corpus Christi leaders have to do is make a decision.

propublica.org

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