Greg Abbott
The Public Record
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.
This will make it easier for health care and mental health providers from out of state to help both by traveling to the area and by telemedicine.
We're going to address every aspect of this storm to make sure we're going to have in place the systems that are needed to prevent deadly flooding events like this in the future.
No one would know that would be a 30-foot-high tsunami wall of water, I don’t think.
The spirit of Texas is alive and well and strong and we're going to keep looking until everyone is found.
All I can tell you is the information we had, the state had, and that we acted on, was information that catalyzed us to begin putting assets and resources in place two days before the event happened.
He could not stop talking about how sad he was for all the little girls who have lost their lives.
If you’re in any of those regions, you need to realize, for one, you’re in an area that is already saturated with water.
Today I visited Camp Mystic. It, and the river running beside it, were horrendously ravaged in ways unlike I've seen in any natural disaster.
The Texas National Guard has done an amazing job rescuing people in peril. They truly are Texans helping Texans.
It, and the river running beside it, were horrendously ravaged in ways unlike I've seen in any natural disaster.
We had assets here already. That said, we didn't know the magnitude of the storm.
I urge every Texan to join me in prayer this Sunday — for the lives lost, for those still missing, for the recovery of our communities, and for the safety of those on the front lines.





