Jeremy Wallace

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Political Reporter at Chron

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Political Reporter at The San Antonio Express-News

Political reporter for the @HoustonChron (https://t.co/r1nBX7NI09) and San Antonio @ExpressNews. Co-host of Texas Take podcast. Mizzou!

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Articles

Bill mandating police reforms spurred by Uvalde shooting sent to Abbott

1 week ago | expressnews.com | Jeremy Wallace

Three years after the Uvalde school shooting, the Texas Legislature is still trying to address multiple law enforcement failures that day that kept nearly 400 officers from rescuing children stuck in the classrooms with the killer for over an hour.
3 years after Uvalde massacre, Texas still struggling to address police failures

1 week ago | expressnews.com | Jeremy Wallace

About 400,000 school children all around this state completed the 7th grade this week and are setting off for the 8th grade. But it was different for Uvalde. Nineteen children who should be moving on to the 8th grade won't because of the horrors that still haunt many in this state three years after the senseless attack on Robb Elementary School. "We haven't done enough," state Sen. Roland Gutierrez, D-San Antonio, said about exposing the mistakes by law enforcement that added to the tragedy.
Proposed food stamp reforms could punish single parents

2 weeks ago | expressnews.com | Jeremy Wallace

Texas Democrats are warning that proposed reforms to federal food stamp programs embedded in the big spending bill moving through Congress will punish single mothers for not being married. Republicans have proposed extending work requirements under the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program for parents with children between the ages of 7 and 18. Currently, parents with dependent children under 18 can be exempted from 20-hour-a-week work requirements.
U.S. House backs plan to reimburse Texas up to $12B for border spending

2 weeks ago | statesman.com | Jeremy Wallace

U.S. House backs plan to reimburse Texas up to $12B for border spendingJeremy Wallace, Texas Political Writer | Hearst - Austin TransitionTexas stands to get up to $12 billion in federal reimbursement for money the Texas Legislature has spent trying to secure the border under the big spending package the U.S. House approved early Thursday morning.
This Houston neighborhood may be hardest hit in all of Texas by SNAP cuts

2 weeks ago | expressnews.com | Jeremy Wallace

Nearly 700,000 needy Texans could be knocked off federal food stamp programs or have their benefits slashed under reforms congressional Republicans are racing to pass, at the behest of President Donald Trump. And one of the most impacted areas of Texas could be Houston's Fifth Ward, which is the only area in the state currently without an elected member of Congress to fight the cuts. U.S. Rep. Sylvester Turner died in March, but Gov.
Texas Republicans have new plan to get border reimbursement money

2 weeks ago | expressnews.com | Jeremy Wallace

Texas has so far been snubbed in its push to get the federal government to reimburse the state $11 billion for the border operation Gov. Greg Abbott launched during the Biden Administration. But U.S. Rep. Chip Roy, R-Austin, could change that this week when a key committee that he sits on takes up the spending and tax cut package that President Donald Trump has been pressuring Congress to pass.
Chip Roy helps stall Trump's tax bill in Congress, citing deficit concerns

3 weeks ago | expressnews.com | Jeremy Wallace

U.S. Rep. Chip Roy of Texas dealt a serious blow to President Donald Trump's push for a big spending plan and tax cut package that is now stalled in the House. Roy and four other House Republicans joined Democrats on the House Budget Committee to vote against the "big, beautiful bill" Trump wants from Congress that includes big changes to Medicaid that could knock more than 7 million people off the government health care program. The bill failed in committee, 21-16.
Why Ted Cruz is so worried about Qatar giving Trump a luxury jet

3 weeks ago | expressnews.com | Jeremy Wallace

President Donald Trump's insistence on taking a luxury jet as a gift from Qatar is not going over well with some of his traditional GOP allies, including U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz, who has a long history of criticizing that nation's role in the world. Cruz said the jet poses a "significant espionage and surveillance" problem if Trump goes through with the deal.
Texas Legislature fights to protect bats from being entombed and killed slowly

3 weeks ago | statesman.com | Jeremy Wallace

Texas’ bat population stands to get new protections under a bill moving through the state Legislature. Under a bill that is scheduled for a vote as early as Tuesday in the Senate, it would be illegal to entomb live bats in an unoccupied structure to kill them. Already, Texas bars people from hunting, killing, possessing or buying and selling bats. “We’ve seen instances where people will come in and spray foam insulation and entomb the bats and then just sweep them out,” state Sen.
Texas Legislature fights to protect bats from being entombed and killed slowly

3 weeks ago | expressnews.com | Jeremy Wallace

Texas' bat population stands to get new protections under a bill moving through the state Legislature. A year after a San Antonio apartment complex tried sealing an entire bat colony inside a building to leave them to die slowly, lawmakers are seeking to bar that practice in the future. Under a bill that is scheduled for a vote as early as Tuesday in the Senate, it would be illegal to entomb live bats in an unoccupied structure to kill them.