Greg Abbott Defies Joe Biden With Order To Ignore New Law

[BumRushDaShow]

Source: Newsweek

Published May 09, 2024 at 6:59 AM EDT | Updated May 09, 2024 at 8:02 AM EDT


Texas Governor Greg Abbott has instructed universities and community colleges in the state to ignore the Biden administration's recent revisions to Title IX, which include a ban on discrimination based on gender identity.

Title IX, which forms part of a 1972 amendment to the Higher Education Act of 1965, outlaws discrimination based on sex within any educational body receiving federal money. The Biden administration's update, which was released in April and takes effect on August 1, extends this to cover discrimination over gender identity or sex stereotypes in a move to better protect transgender students. It also reversed a Trump-era edit that gave additional rights to students accused of engaging in sexual misconduct.

The status of transgender rights in education, and in particular their access to bathrooms and involvement in sport teams matching their gender identity, has become a heated political issue in recent years. Supporters of the Title IX change argue it will better protect transgender rights, while critics claim the participation of what they regard as biological males will undermine women's sports and create safety issues.

On X, formerly Twitter, Abbott shared part of an open letter he wrote to Texas colleges and universities telling them to defy the new Title IX edits. He wrote: "Texas will not comply with President Biden's rewrite of Title IX. Period. Today, I instructed Texas public colleges and universities to ignore this illegal rewrite.

Read more: https://www.newsweek.com/greg-abbott-defies-joe-biden-order-ignore-new-law-1898733

[bucolic_frolic]

1. Abbott is the most vile human alive

[PatSeg]

5. I think he is tied with a few others

It really is hard to just pick one.

[azureblue]

2. and he will turn around

and demand federal money. Time to put some compliance with federal laws conditions on getting that money.
IOW, if Abbott wants to ignore federal law, then he doesn't get federal money. especially disaster money. Let him come up with the money to repair Texas, since he so independent..

[Comfortably_Numb]

3. Odin I despise my governor with every fiber of my being!! Hate him 24/7/365, no holidays.

[JT45242]

4. Threaten taking away funds...NSF, NIH, CDC, etc.

If your schools do not comply with Title 9 -- Not a single dollar from the NSF, NIH, or any other government agency will go to any college in Texas, period.

Let Abbott explain to his megadonors why UT Austin lost its rating as a tier 1 research institute.

Don't take away Pell grants to students -- hit the state where it hurts -- this will make professors flee and med schools close up.

If a company is working on a joint study with a texas university and using NSF, NIH, CDC, etc. funds they go away.

Let's see how Big Pharma and other businesses that ran to Texas for cheap or nonexistant taxes feel about losing their public subsidies for R&D.

[cstanleytech]

14. Well one thing that the Democrats could do is another BRAC which is needed and close unneeded military bases in Texas.

[Angleae]

16. Unfortunately that would really require congress.

While the bases could be closed with an executive order, moving the units can't. Move a unit takes money, and that means congress.

[cstanleytech]

20. Then perhaps delay any Federal spending in the State.

[Old Crank]

6. Biden just needs to keep

all the military on their bases for 2 weeks. That will turn off a huge spiggot of federal dollars to local communities. With immediate impact.

[ancianita]

8. Not possible. Bases are not self sufficient cities in peacetime.

[FloridaBlues]

7. There are several states that are doing the same. Ignore federal laws

Chipping away at democracy. One slippery slope at a time.

[lees1975]

9. No compliance, no federal dollars.

Texas is fully dependent on federal money to fund just about everything, since it is a poor state, doesn't collect state income tax and its citizens do not provide as much to the federal treasury as they take out.

Cut them off. Every penny. They'd shut down in a week.

[NanaCat]

11. I'll need a citation from a credible source

That Texas is a tax dollar taker, never mind 'fully dependent' on federal revenue.

If you'd ever been to the state, you'd know that it doesn't much resemble a 'tax-taker' state like, oh, Alabama or West Virginia. Or its neighbour, New Mexico.

[Hermit-The-Prog]

13. 2019 report, using 2017 data, TX had a "balance of payments" of $36.2 billion

Sorry about the date, it's the latest I could find.

A positive "balance of payments" means more money flows into the state from the feds than is paid by the state residents in federal taxes.

11 states pay more in federal taxes than they get back — here's how every state fares

[ ... ]

https://www.businessinsider.com/federal-taxes-federal-services-difference-by-state-2019-1?op=1#texas-43
Total balance of payments: $36.2 billion
Per capita balance of payments: $1,280

[ My home state: ]
https://www.businessinsider.com/federal-taxes-federal-services-difference-by-state-2019-1?op=1#kentucky-17
Total balance of payments: $26.6 billion
Per capita balance of payments: $5,984

That per capita balance doesn't seem to support the idea that Texas is "fully dependent" on federal tax dollars coming in.

[moonshinegnomie]

10. arrest abbot for obstruction of justice

[NanaCat]

12. So he wants to defy the federal government

While he himself refuses to let local governments in his state develop their own statutes for things like minimum wage or education priorities.

But of course he's a hypocrite. He's traitor GQP.

[Traurigkeit]

18. Greg Abbott is a Traitor. [FULL STOP]

[Barry Markson]

15. President Biden needs to send Federal Marshals to Texas

To escort trans students to their preferred bathrooms, locker rooms, and sporting competitions.

It would be his Ruby Bridges moment for the world to see.



It's a shame that Norman Rockwell isn't alive to memorialize the event.

[Traurigkeit]

17. So Texas is not a State in the United States ?

[LudwigPastorius]

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