$1.5K Rebate Checks Are Coming: When Do You Get Paid & What's the Catch?

The Isaiah Factor Uncensored starts now. Welcome and thank you for joining us here on the Factor Uncensored. The question is, when will we get that promised rebate check here in the state of Texas from Governor-elect Gina Hinojosa? Now, that was a promise made on the campaign trail, but will she deliver Ron Reynolds? We'll talk about it in just a second. Take a listen to this. People are struggling in a way I have not seen before and we need to show government can do something to make our lives a little easier. The government that we pay for should be working for us. And so my plan is money in your pocket $1,500 to every Texas household. Republicans have been saying they want to shrink government. I'm saying put your money where your mouth is and the money back. And, of course, that is Governor-elect Gina Hinojosa with Greg Grugin from What's Your Point here on Fox 26. And that was part of or one of the campaign promises she made while on the path out there. And, of course, many Texans are asking, where is that $1,500 rebate? Obviously, she has to be sworn in first, get into office. But is it possible? Will it happen, State Representative Ron Reynolds? That's your person. That is my person, I'm super excited about Governor-Elect Gina Hinojosa, I've been working with her in the legislature, she has This is one of her top campaign promises in addition to firing Mike Miles on day one. But when it comes to this $1,500, this will take both houses to get the bill to her desk because this is using funds that are in our rainy day fund. You need the House and the Senate to get that to her desk. One of my colleagues in the Senate has already pre-filed the legislation. So I know my colleagues in the House, in the Democrat, the new Democrat majority, are ready to pass this into law. The Senate is controlled by the Republicans, even though Vicky Goodwin will be the presiding officer as the lieutenant governor. However, I think the struggle is going to be in the Senate whether or not the Republicans will agree to this $1,500. Families are hurting. This is an affordability bill. People, I know right now, many Texans need that $1,500 because of. The rising costs with rent, groceries, gas. I'm very hopeful that we can get the bipartisan support. But Governor Hinojosa has an aggressive plan to get it done. Can it get done? It's largely going to depend on the Republicans in the Senate, whether or not they will compromise with the Democrats. But it's very feasible. We can get that check done. At the start of the next legislative session, it will be a priority for the governor. It is a campaign promise she made. I do believe this is one of the things that she's going to try to get passed. Now, Dr. David Branham, let's establish where this money is coming from. There is a $27 billion rainy day fund here in the state of Texas. Historically, it's been capped at $10 billion. She's saying let's take $17 billion out of that. We don't need that much money in reserve and give that money back to the people. How likely is that to happen? I don't think it's likely at all, but- Well, damn, there's no hope, keep hope alive? Well, I think the Republicans will not be able to back this, although I personally think it's not a bad idea to give taxpayer money back to the taxpayer. It's a lot better than wasting it in some program that doesn't make any sense. Just give the money back to the people who gave it, because that's actually lowering taxes. So there's worse ideas than this, but As Ron was talking about, you're going to have to get Republican support. And the Republicans in the first place were the ones who wanted that rainy day fund. And it's there for a good reason, because the state has to balance its budget. If something devastating happens, you need that money to cover it. You're not going to be able to cover things that you need to cover if you don't have it. So I understand why they want a big rainy day fund. And I don't think that they're going to be able to pull this off. Angela, as a staunch Republican here in the state of Texas, number one, would you be opposed to this? Number two, how likely is this? Well, I'm just going to go ahead and just pretend this woman is actually going to become governor because of the extra 2 million unvetted registrations that took place between 2023 and 2025. And it's the weirdest thing. Texas went blue by 2 million votes. It's the craziest thing. And then there's 20 million magic votes that just, Happened to pop up throughout the country from these unvetted registrations, wild, wild stuff. Anyway, let's pretend that this literal dummy is going to become governor. And I will say this Gina, this is, first of all, a bribe is a bribe is a bribe is a bribe. And I tip my hat to someone who bribes someone. Cool, but the Rainy Day Fund, as Dr. Branham said, is extremely important. If something catastrophic happens in the state of Texas, you can't just be like, there's this big pile of money here, let's just start handing it out. She also wants to cap electricity prices, which every single communist has tried and failed. But this brain trust, she thinks she's going to be the one to do it. She also wants to take your guns and not work with ICE to deport illegal aliens. And so again, we're going to pretend that this is actually going to come to President Trump promised $5,000 to everyone if the Republicans won. So what's the difference? I never heard the Republicans complaining about that. But he actually wanted a tax cut. We're not getting the $5,000, we're not getting that. All right, Dr. Von Bivel, really quick, we have one minute left in this break. Absolutely, no, I mean, I agree with Dr. Randall, and I'm gonna stop arguing with Representative Reynolds as much now since he had a 3-1 opposition on these outcomes. But the reality is, Declaring this a calamity is very problematic because we don't like to make a private gift of public funds. So there are article three provisions that would prevent us from doing this legally. I expect legal challenges. I do worry about the 27 billion in the sense that we have things that need to be fixed today. Inflation is only going to increase and so fix it today with the money you have and $1,500 per household isn't life changing, but it's a lot more legally defensible than coming up with new metrics, criteria or complex factors that we've seen in other programs where we try to determine income levels. We try to try to determine geographic boundaries. So I think it's a lot more legally defensible. All right. 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