Greg Abbott Threatens New Showdown With Joe Biden Administration

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Source: Newsweek

Published May 14, 2024 at 4:35 AM EDT | Updated May 14, 2024 at 8:15 AM EDT


Governor Greg Abbott has warned Texas A&M University "they are jeopardizing state funding" amid media reports it will comply with a Biden administration update to Title IX, which extends legislation to ban discrimination over gender identity.

On April 1 the Biden administration announced it was updating Title IX, part of a 1972 amendment to the 1965 Higher Education Act which bans any educational body receiving federal funding from discriminating based on sex. The new changes, which are scheduled to take effect on August 1, extend this to cover discrimination over gender identity in a bid to protect transgender students, and removes a Trump-era edit giving more rights to students accused of sexual misconduct.

Governor Abbott has developed into a significant thorn in President Biden's side in recent months, challenging the White House on a range of policy areas including education and how to control irregular immigration. Earlier this month he wrote an open letter instructing Texas universities and public colleges to "ignore" the Title IX revision, which he argued would "impose a leftists belief and erase advancements our state has made."

On Monday Abbott shared an article on X, formerly Twitter, from local radio network KTRH which, citing news website Texas Scorecard, claimed Texas A&M "is planning to implement Joe Biden's radical Title IX rewrite this summer." Abbott added: "If they do, if they act contrary to state policy, they are jeopardizing state funding, including money from the PUF fund.

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[coprolite]

1. Texas A&M is going to have to decide what's more important

Federal funds or State monies.

[cstanleytech]

2. Texas would be wise to remove Abbott from power but I doubt that they will.

[flying_wahini]

3. Here we go again. We have tried.

Our batshit crazy Governor is a liar and a cheater.

[cstanleytech]

8. I'm referring to the ones that refused to.

[Warpy]

10. No, they're too full of themselves for that

They're going to have to start losing Federal contracts and lots of money and that will take time. Texas loses enough contracts and subsidies, they'll get the point. Until then, forget it.

[Mr.Bee]

4. Remember how George Wallace defied JFK?

Greg Abbott is this century's new George Wallace.

[Rebl2]

5. I feel there

are many George Wallace like politicians out there these days.

[Polybius]

7. The difference is that JFK ordered Wallace's National Guard to be federalized

Biden won't do that to Abbot, although it was suggested that he would months ago when he defied a SC order.

[Bayard]

6. The President has an army and Secret Service

Don't threaten him, bug.

[azureblue]

9. and Abbott can lose

other federal funding that Texas depends on to stay afloat. Time to pull up those bootstraps, if you don't want to comply..