House Speaker Dade Phelan said he does not support the use of taxpayer dollars to fund Attorney General Ken Paxton’s $3.3 million settlement with four former aides who accused him of taking bribes.
Phelan, a Beaumont Republican, does not anticipate that the money will be included in the House budget, he said in a Wednesday interview with CBS DFW.
Cayla Harris covers state politics out of Hearst's Austin bureau. She previously covered New York state government for the Albany Times Union. She is a 2019 graduate of the George Washington University, where she studied journalism and Spanish. During her time in D.C., she interned for the Hearst Washington bureau.
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