Thank you for the opportunity to testify in support of House Bill 20, which would create a Texas Border Protection Unit under the control of the Texas Department of Public Safety. My name is Joshua Treviño, and I am the Chief of Intelligence and Research at the Texas Public Policy Foundation, a nonprofit and nonpartisan research institution in Austin, Texas. In my role, much of my work focuses on the violence in Mexico, and the reclamation of Texas’s sovereignty under the Constitution.
Taxes & Spending
Testimony to the Senate Committee on Local Government: Senate Bill 9
Mr. Chairman and members of the Committee, My name is James Quintero, and I represent the Texas Public Policy Foundation, a free-market institute headquartered in Austin, Texas. Thank you for the opportunity to address the committee this morning on the merits of Senate Bill (SB) 9, which proposes to reduce the voter-approval tax rate (VATR)...
August 6, 2025