Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton (R) says the state’s largest county, Harris County, is preparing to unlawfully give poor people $20.5 million in Covid-19 stimulus funds under a so-called guaranteed income program.
In a lawsuit filed Tuesday in Houston, Paxton says the no-strings-attached program serves no public purpose and discriminates against non-recipients. He reduced the lottery-based handout to a “socialist experiment.”
Texas sued to ensure “public funds are properly expended and not doled out as door prizes at the voting booth,” the lawsuit says.
Paxton is asking a judge to issue a temporary restraining order before the first payments are ...
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