Reporting on waste, fraud, and abuse at state agencies through public records and open sources. Legal and evidence-based peaceful accountability without bias.
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My wife’s family helped build Texas. Her ancestor Nancy Boren came here in 1828 and received land in Robertson’s Colony in 1835. Her son, Col. Michael Boren, fought for independence under Sam Houston.
Two centuries later, she was replaced by H-1B labor. And when we spoke out publicly about the Texas Workforce Commission, the State sent three police cars to our home.
This is how Texas treats the families who founded it. #txlege
"They hate you. They mock you and they laugh at you.." @DonHuffines told us. Hero.
Another out of touch Senator, who needs to be primaried and defeated. Every single Republican senator who is supporting John Thune needs to be replaced.
They hate you. They mock you and they laugh at you..
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One party has run every Texas state agency for three decades.
I worked inside one of these agencies. It’s worse than the reports say.
Still conservative, but not a sucker anymore.
Here’s the record:
• A Lottery Commission so compromised it was abolished. Its former director is under felony indictment.
• A $137 million foster care contractor cancelled after the state tied its failures to the deaths of two children.
• $40 million to rebuild the unemployment system. A third of it got built.
• $36 million paid out to unemployment fraud in one year. 7% recovered.
• Child care cut for 14,000 kids, with 100,000 already waiting.
• A Comptroller who says people inside government “knew about these failures and hid them.”
The other party just won the governor’s office and says it will clean things up.
Whoever actually fixes our agencies gets my support.
That isn’t betrayal, that’s accountability. #txlege
TWC got $40 million to modernize the full unemployment system (tax + benefits + appeals). They only did the tax part and spent the entire amount anyway.
Sunset staff called it out. #txlege @DonHuffines
I'm hoping this can be cleaned up during the legislature session coming up. The TWC is being evaluated for its continued existence via a sunset process. It's the time to fix it ... or it just continues to fail its mission. Come January, it starts to change #txlege
Gov. Abbott put the Texas Workforce Commission in charge of the state’s H-1B freeze. The freeze doesn’t cover contractors.
I asked TWC what the citizenship status was for its contractors. Its answer, in writing: “TWC does not have this information.”
TWC’s systems hold your Social Security number, your wages, and your bank account. The Pentagon found out that foreign based engineers were working on its cloud, guess who may be accessing YOUR data.
@DonHuffines @TerenceHuffines @GregAbbott_TX #txlege
@GinaHinojosaTX I am or was a Republican, but I welcome the fresh take you bring and to see what your administration will do about failing agencies. Please hold the TWC and others accountable and this is the perfect time you can do it. SUNSET @VikkiGoodwinTX @Senfronia4Texas
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Gov. Abbott put the Texas Workforce Commission in charge of the state’s H-1B freeze. The freeze doesn’t cover contractors.
I asked TWC what the citizenship status was for its contractors. Its answer, in writing: “TWC does not have this information.”
TWC’s systems hold your Social Security number, your wages, and your bank account. The Pentagon found out that foreign based engineers were working on its cloud, guess who may be accessing YOUR data.
@DonHuffines @TerenceHuffines @GregAbbott_TX #txlege
Texas Accountability Project retweeted
Are there really two parties? Not really.
My MIL worked directly for one of the most powerful people in politics. She was his go to for pretty much anything of importance.. and later his wife's best friend. So, our families were very close.
He wasn't an elected official, he was the man who made them. He gave Bill Clinton his start and put him into power. So many others as well.
So, one day he and I were talking and he told me how it really works. This won't surprise anyone that really follows politics and government affairs, but hearing it from the "king maker" himself was worth far more than from a random person.
What you see on TV is all for show. Both sides, DEM and GOP, are personally good friends. They "bicker and argue" for public consumption, but at the end of the day they would go over to the Hay-Adams and get drunk and share laughs.
They don't work for us, pretty much none of them do. That came from the man who put many of them in power himself. Oh, and and this is global. It's not just the USA.
Texas Accountability Project retweeted
“This was not ignorance. The early findings suggest people inside government knew about these failures and hid them.” I'm looking at you @TXWorkforce and @UTAustin
Texas Comptroller Don Huffines Uncovers Decades of I-9 Failures, Calls on President Trump to Send ICE Into Every Government Agency in Texas comptroller.texas.gov/about/…
I have heard, but not confirmed yet, that staff augmentation via visa reliant contracting companies has increased. Work around for the so called "h1-b freeze"
If these certifications were false, that is fraud against the state and against the people the program was created to help.
Who checked? Who signed off?
ALL Texans, blue, red, center, should be outraged. The fraud in Texas agencies is out of control!
Just showed this to my wife. She is part Native American, and she is livid.
She was laid off, replaced by an H-1B director, and her job was offshored to India.
Her family was in Texas before the Republic, through her Native American side and through Nancy Boren, whose family came at Sam Houston’s direct invitation and who started the second school in Texas.
They fought and bled for Texas. Contracts meant for Native American businesses should go to Native American businesses. American Indian and Indian American are not the same thing, and Native Americans remain among the poorest communities in this country.
If these certifications were false, that is fraud against the state and against the people the program was created to help. Who checked? Who signed off?
ALL Texans, blue, red, center, should be outraged. The fraud in Texas agencies is out of control!
@DonHuffines @GregAbbott_TX @TexasDIR @GinaHinojosaTX @TPPF #txlege @txcomptroller @DOLOIG @USDOL @AGToddBlanche
Texas Accountability Project retweeted
Fraudsters use sham staffing firms, forged documents, and fake student records to try to cheat the U.S. visa system.
Under President Trump and @SecRubio, the State Department is exposing these schemes, revoking fraudulent visas, and protecting our country from exploitation.
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Nope. It was one of the things I wanted and tried to fix. Using AI to cross reference resumes and experience to hiring entities.... my work was stolen of course by those above me. It was mentioned by a state rep as the best idea to come out of the any agency for the use of AI.