Aram Zucker-Scharff

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Texas legislators quietly blocked $3 million in funding for victims of sex trafficking

• Lawmakers in Texas have decided to kill a plan that would have reallocated $3 million from Gov. Greg Abbott’s homeland security budget to fund an initiative to help sex trafficking victims.
• According to the Texas Tribune, the plan had initially been approved receiving overwhelming support in the state’s House of Representatives in a 113 to 32 vote. 
• But in recent closed-door budget negotiations, House legislators clashed with their colleagues in the Senate whose “spending priorities contained significant differences.”
• Texas reportedly houses roughly 80,000 child sex trafficking victims. Read more (5/26/17)

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