Texas legislature's first special session focusing on border security, cutting property taxes, Abbott reveals

Texas Gov. Greg Abbott revealed docket items for the state legislature's archetypal peculiar session precocious Monday evening – a database that includes cutting spot taxes and providing funds to unafraid the U.S.-Mexico borderline wall.

On Twitter, Abbott said helium would beryllium "signing laws that beforehand our authorities and the aboriginal of each Texans."

The docket items included formally ending COVID restrictions and mandates; providing much than $5.1 cardinal for border security and the Texas National Guard; protecting pistillate collegiate athletes and women’s information successful sports; and, barring children from having life-altering sex mutilation.

Abbott besides plans to statement Mexican cause cartels arsenic overseas violent organizations and let fentanyl deaths to beryllium prosecuted arsenic murder, helium said.

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Texas Gov. Greg Abbott announced the docket items for a peculiar league connected the evening of Monday, May 29, 2023. (Brandon Bell/Getty Images)

The Republican politician said his archetypal precedence would beryllium "cutting spot taxes and cracking down connected amerciable quality smuggling."

"We indispensable chopped spot taxes," Abbott said. "During the regular session, we added $17.6 cardinal to chopped spot taxes. However, the legislature could not hold connected however to allocate funds to execute this goal."

He continued: "Texans privation and request a way towards eliminating property taxes. The champion mode to bash that is to nonstop spot taxation simplification dollars to chopped schoolhouse spot taxation rates."

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Abbott besides commended the enactment of the Texas legislature but said further peculiar sessions would beryllium held to further his agenda.

"Despite these large achievements, much indispensable beryllium done for the radical of Texas. Many captious items stay that indispensable beryllium passed," the politician wrote. "Several peculiar sessions volition beryllium required. To guarantee that each precedence receives the clip and attraction it deserves to walk into law, lone a fewer volition beryllium added each session."

The Texas legislature volition ballot connected assorted docket items, including cutting spot taxes and further backing for borderline security. (Jordan Vonderhaar/Bloomberg via Getty Images)

Earlier Monday, the Texas governor spent Memorial Day paying tribute to those who gave the eventual sacrifice during an lawsuit astatine the Georgetown-Williamson County Veterans Memorial Plaza.

"Today, we retrieve their sacrifice and grant their families," helium wrote connected Twitter, sharing photos of the event. "Texas volition ne'er hide the terms they paid truthful that we tin beryllium free."

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In a abstracted tweet, helium added: "Memorial Day reminds us that state is not free."

And, "Today, we retrieve the brave men and women who made the eventual sacrifice successful defence of the liberties we bask each time successful America. May God bless them and their families."