In wide-ranging interview, Gina Hinojosa outlines priorities as Texas governor

Gov.-elect Gina Hinojosa says even Elon Musk will get a $1,500 check from the state if her campaign promise becomes a reality. The program is meant to be a tax refund, she said, not a social program. The Austin state representative and incoming Democratic governor defended the checks and began laying out her governing agenda in a wide-ranging interview Friday with Hearst Newspapers. She said tapping $17 billion from the state’s rainy day fund to send money to voters will be among her top priorities when lawmakers reconvene in January. “Grift keeps the lights on in this place,” Hinojosa said from her Capitol office. “It is a problem that we have to weed out, and I just think, in light of what I know to be true — and the vast majority of people who are in this building know to be true — that Texans need a refund. We’ve been paying into a system working against us, and it has to stop. It’ll stop with me as governor.

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