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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsTexas GAVE $17.3M to World's Richest Man, yet DENIED Flood Warning Sirens for Texans
There is MILLIONS AND MILLIONS AND MILLIONS TO HELP
THE BILLIONAIRES
YET, no money for Flood Warning Sirens in Texas.
https://www.kut.org/business/2025-03-13/texas-grant-spacex-starlink-elon-musk-semiconductor-austin-bastrop
Texas gives Elon Musks SpaceX $17.3M to expand site near Austin
The Texas Newsroom | By Lauren McGaughy
Published March 13, 2025 at 11:09 AM CDT
The state of Texas will give Elon Musks SpaceX $17.3 million to help expand its Starlink manufacturing facility near Austin.
Gov. Greg Abbott announced the funding on Wednesday. The money will be awarded to SpaceX subsidiary Starlink through Abbotts Texas Semiconductor Innovation Fund, an incentive program to encourage semiconductor research, development and manufacturing.
Only five grants have been awarded since the $698.3 million fund was created in 2023, the governors office told The Texas Newsroom.
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And
https://www.texastribune.org/2025/07/06/texas-disaster-warning-emergency-communication-bill-kerrville-floods/
Texas lawmakers failed to pass a bill to improve local disaster warning systems this year
A GOP state lawmaker who represents Kerr County says he likely would vote differently now on House Bill 13, which would have established a grant program for counties to build new emergency communication infrastructure.
BY TERRI LANGFORD AND CARLOS NOGUERAS RAMOS
JULY 6, 2025
UPDATED: JULY 7, 2025

Irish_Dem
(72,509 posts)Not so much for the regular person.
The billionaires already have more money than they can spend in this lifetime.
IrishBubbaLiberal
(2,561 posts)This is recent news of denial, but there were also funds available years ago
that Texas Republicans denied, during the Biden Presidency
https://www.texastribune.org/2025/07/06/texas-disaster-warning-emergency-communication-bill-kerrville-floods/
Texas lawmakers failed to pass a bill to improve local disaster warning systems this year
A GOP state lawmaker who represents Kerr County says he likely would vote differently now on House Bill 13, which would have established a grant program for counties to build new emergency communication infrastructure.
BY TERRI LANGFORD AND CARLOS NOGUERAS RAMOS
JULY 6, 2025
UPDATED: JULY 7, 2025