Texas governor doesn't 'want to see' border wall in Big Bend
AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — Whether Texas scales back on nearly $1 billion in border security spending or pursues a North Carolina-style transgender bathroom law will depend on what Donald Trump does in the White House, Republican Gov. Greg Abbott said Tuesday.
Despite expecting Trump to build new physical barriers along the U.S.-Mexico border, Abbott said he doesn't want a wall cutting through some places.
"There are serpentine regions of the Rio Grande where it would be extremely challenging to build a wall. There are parts like the Big Bend region — we don't want see a wall in the beautiful Big Bend National Park," Abbott said.
Texas is home to Trump's newest cabinet picks: ExxonMobil CEO Rex Tillerson, whom the president-elect has selected for secretary of state, and former Gov. Rick Perry. Perry was chosen to lead the Energy Department, according to two people with knowledge of the decision who insisted on anonymity because they were not authorized to disclose the decision ahead of the official announcement. Texas has been involved in more than 40 lawsuits against the Obama administration, and a Trump presidency is likely to dull eight years of antagonism with the federal government.
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