Abbott presents Turner with $50 million to help Houston post-Harvey
"We're wearing the same jersey, we're on the same team," Abbott said after delivering just what Turner had asked for from the state earlier in the week, a sum the governor had initially balked at giving right away.
The presentation of the check at a
"We've been working together over the years," Turner said.
"Decades," Abbott, a former attorney general, corrected him.
"Decades," Turner said. "And Texans do what they do, OK, so I appreciate what has taken place today."
Abbott had previously given
But Turner, in a letter earlier in the week to Abbott, said that still left
While Turner had called on Abbott to take money from the state's
But Abbott said that the rainy day funds would be but a drop in the bucket for what will be need to rebuild
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