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Another border showdown in DC
Standing in Eagle Pass, Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas offered a clear preview this week of how he's going to fight off a Republican attempt to impeach him over the handling of the border starting tomorrow.
Just a few miles from where some of the same Republican members of Congress who will lead the impeachment effort were calling him a liar and danger to the nation last week, Mayorakas used a press conference to stress a record of bipartisanship.
"I am privileged to be working with both Republican and Democratic Senators who are working tirelessly on much-needed reform and long overdue fixes to our broken system," Mayorkas said.
It's part of a broader message the White House is pushing to defend Mayorkas, according to Politico. In talking points the White House has given its supporters to defend Mayorkas, they call for stressing his "working across the aisle to find bipartisan solutions."
That surely doesn't sound like how key Republicans on the House Homeland Security Committee are seeing him. It was just last week in Eagle Pass that U.S. Rep. Mark Green, the Tennessee Republican who leads that committee, was tearing into Mayorkas at a press conference.
"The greatest domestic threat to the national security and the safety of the American people is Secretary Alejandra Mayorkas," Green said. "He, through his policies, has defied and subverted the laws passed by the United States Congress. He has defied multiple court orders. He has lied numerous times to the U.S. Congress. He has, under oath, stated things that were blatantly and obviously incorrect."
Green hasn't quite hidden how rough he's going to be on Mayorkas tomorrow during the Homeland Security Committee starting at 9 a.m. Check out the title of the hearing: "Havoc in the Heartland: How Secretary Mayorkas' Failed Leadership Has Impacted the States."
 | Jeremy Wallace, Texas politics reporter |
Who's up, who's down
Up: Nikki Haley.
Well, maybe. One new CNN/University of New Hampshire poll shows Haley trailing former President Donald Trump in that state by just 7 percentage points — the closest the race has been with that primary election just two weeks away. But another released this week by USA Today shows her down 20 percentage points.
Down: Kids vaping.
Hundreds of students in Houston-area school districts were sent to disciplinary alternative education programs in the first three months of a new Texas law meant to curb youth vaping, a move that some school administrators and advocates say is too punitive. The new state law, House Bill 114, requires public schools to remove any student from class who is caught with an e-cigarette and send them to a separate center designated for students in serious trouble. The law went into effect Sept. 1.
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Texas school districts are poised to lose more than $300 million a year in special education funding under a recent federal administrative decision, at a time when many districts are struggling to keep up with an exploding number of requests for evaluations. Dozens of districts stand to lose at least $1 million in the coming school year, and three will face shortfalls of more than $10 million: Northside ISD in San Antonio, Dallas ISD and Cypress-Fairbanks ISD northwest of Houston.
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Former Dallas Congresswoman Eddie Bernice Johnson was remembered Tuesday as the "wonder woman from Waco" who broke barriers in her professional and political career while using her clout to move North Texas forward. The Dallas Morning News has the details on the ceremonies honoring her life.
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