Secession Is Back in Style in Texas

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

70% : A Texas Monthly report from February estimated that, after accounting for such benefits as Social Security, Medicaid, and the state university system, Texas receives net benefit from the federal government of about $45 billion a year.
65% : "When it was evident Trump was going to be president
48% : "The federal government," Abbott charged in a January statement defending his maneuvers, "has broken the compact between the United States and the States" by failing in its "constitutional duty to enforce federal laws protecting States, including immigration laws on the books right now.
42% : Such deaths may be tragically routine -- 895 people died along the southwestern border in 2022, according to U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) -- but the circumstances in this case were not.
41% : We literally grew at the same rate during Trump as we did during Obama," he says.

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