Welcome to another episode of SignalCast! Signal's Joe Deshotel and Jessica Montoya-Coggins cover the following topics:
- Voter suppression — HB 6 moves to the floor, anti-voter suppression presser in Dallas at AT&T and the broader movement to get corporations to oppose restrictions including American Airlines
- 10 Marijuana bills, Dan Patrick says they are dead he opposes legalization
- Vax — Texas moves up to 45th past Arkansas
- GOP healthcare priorities do not include Medicaid expansion
- Beto... Will he or won’t he?
- George P. Bush considering a run against Paxton
- Congress allocated $19 billion in federal stimulus money to Texas public education, but schools have yet to see an extra dime
- The Texas Legislature’s budget writers have left more than $38 billion in federal COVID-19 relief out of the budgets they’re writing, as they try to sort through the details and the politics attached to that money
- According to a legislative report, of the 176,000 people who have begun applications for rental assistance, just more than 1,000