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Pledges to cut property taxes and return budget surpluses as relief to homeowners, renters and businesses. 12

Says he will oversee every aspect of the education savings account program (often called school vouchers) with transparency and coordinate with the Legislature and TEA. 34

Would protect public schools and audit the education savings account program (often called school vouchers). 567

Voting record

Voted no on the Senate motion to concur in House amendments to SB 2, which created the education savings account program (often called school vouchers); adopted 19-12 (Senate Journal, April 24, 2025). 8

Says funds from the education savings account program (often called school vouchers) should be administered without bias, including toward Islamic schools. 910

Pledges that no tax dollars go to people in the country illegally and would study the cost of undocumented immigration to the state; has criticized a federal barrier through Big Bend. 1112

Would challenge the law giving sheriffs grants for cooperating with ICE. 1314

Would work with lawmakers to modernize highways, airports, ports and power systems. 15

Would halt state incentives to AI data centers and backs a data center moratorium. 1617

Opposes tax breaks for data centers. 1819

Voting record

Voted no on SB 8 (2021), which bans most abortions after cardiac activity is detected, about six weeks into pregnancy, and allows private civil suits; the Senate passed it on third reading 19-12 (Senate Journal, March 30, 2021). 20

Voting record

Voted no on HB 1927 (2021), the permitless (constitutional) carry bill; the Senate passed it on third reading 18-13 (Senate Journal, May 5, 2021). 21

Says as comptroller he signed an executive order ending a tax on medical care, described by an advocacy group as a tax on electronic medical records technology. 22

Would use the office to report the cost to Texas of not expanding Medicaid. 2324

Voting record

Voted no on HB 4, the 2025 mid-decade congressional redistricting bill, on Senate third reading and final passage, 18-11 (Senate Journal, August 22-23, 2025, 2nd Called Session). 25

Forensic audits of state agencies and local governments, prosecuting theft of public funds, auditing major contracts including TxDOT's, preferring Texas companies in procurement, and cutting regulations. 2627

Describes the office as a watchdog over public money: ending no-bid contracts, ending corporate tax breaks, running an independent office, and opposing proof-of-legal-status requirements for professional licenses. 282930

Tax spending transparency, divesting from foreign bonds, and challenging laws that penalize boycotts of Israel, fossil fuel companies or firearms makers. 3132

During his 2022 campaign for governor, criticized a state agency webpage on transgender youth and said he had pushed Gov. Abbott to protect children from "abusive transgender transitioning." 33

Voting record

Voted no on Senate final passage of SB 14 (2023), which prohibits gender transition medical treatment for minors (passed 19-12, April 4, 2023). 34

His 2014 state Senate campaign supported teaching creationism in public schools. No statement found on the 2025 Ten Commandments or school prayer laws. 35

Voting record

Voted no on SB 10 on passage. SB 10 requires display of the Ten Commandments in public school classrooms; the Senate passed it 20-11 (March 19, 2025) and concurred in House amendments 21-10 (May 28, 2025). Her written reason for vote said the bill unconstitutionally makes one version of the Ten Commandments the required classroom text. 3637

In February 2026 criticized the comptroller's office over steps to exclude certain private Islamic schools from the state education savings account program, saying the office was being told to discriminate based on religion. 38

Describes herself as a Muslim American; criticizes the comptroller's office for working to deny education savings account funds to accredited private Islamic schools and pledges to run the program "without religious bias." 3940