Gina Hinojosa’s plans for Texas: $1,500 checks, data centers and medicaid

Key Points:

• Gina Hinojosa, winner of the Texas governor’s race, promises a $1,500 one-time refund to Texas households using surplus funds from the state’s Rainy Day Fund, aiming to stimulate the economy amid financial struggles.
• She advocates for ending tax breaks for large data centers, imposing sales taxes on their electricity consumption, and instituting a moratorium on new data centers due to their environmental and community impacts.
• Hinojosa supports repealing the state’s private school voucher program to keep public money in public schools, though she acknowledges legislative challenges in achieving this.
• She pledges to push for Medicaid expansion to provide health care access for more low-income Texans, emphasizing federal funding support and strengthening rural hospitals.
• On property taxes, Hinojosa aims to eliminate residential property taxes by cutting corporate subsidies, supports local control over tax decisions, and prioritizes public safety funding without promising specific border security spending cuts.