Texas legislators quietly blocked $3 million in funding for victims of sex trafficking
- Lawmakers in Texas have decided to kill a plan that would have reallocated $3 million from Gov. Greg Abbott’s homeland security budget to fund an initiative to help sex trafficking victims.
- According to the Texas Tribune, the plan had initially been approved receiving overwhelming support in the state’s House of Representatives in a 113 to 32 vote.
- But in recent closed-door budget negotiations, House legislators clashed with their colleagues in the Senate whose “spending priorities contained significant differences.”
- Texas reportedly houses roughly 80,000 child sex trafficking victims. Read more (5/26/17)
Reminder that Republicans are indifferent to your suffering, and will do whatever they can to harm the most vulnerable people they can, because they are cruel and selfish.