TBB Staff

WASHINGTON – Yesterday U.S. Senator John Cornyn (R-TX) shared his frustration that the Biden Administration has rescinded Texas’s 1115 Medicaid Waiver Extension in the Senate Finance Committee. He currently has a hold on the nomination of Chiquita Brooks-LaSure to be administrator for the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services until he can get more clarity from the Biden Administration on how to rectify this waiver issue. Excerpts of Sen. Cornyn’s remarks are below, and video can be found here.

The U.S. Small Business Administration launched a new round of Economic Injury Disaster Loan (EIDL) assistance – called Supplemental Targeted Advances – on April 22, 2021

Rio Grande Valley, TX (April 23, 2021) – IDEA Public Schools is proud to announce that fourteen students have been selected for the QuestBridge College Prep Scholars Program. The following students are among 3,908 high school juniors nationwide selected this year from over 15,000 applications.

EDINBURG, Texas – Rio Grande Valley Border Patrol (RGV) agents and local law enforcement disrupt three human smuggling stash houses.

Registration for Maymester, Summer Session I and Summer Session II is now underway!

MCALLEN, TEXAS (April 23, 2021) – New live features will kick off commencement exercises for South Texas College ahead of graduation on May 15.

MISSION - Kenneth White Junior High (KWJH) unveiled the first Monarch Butterfly Statue in the district on Thursday, April 23 as a memorial of this last year, as well as a symbol of hope to students that they will soon make their way back to their campus.

EDINBURG, Texas — The Museum of South Texas History preserves and presents the heritage of South Texas and northeastern Mexico through public programming.

EDINBURG, Texas– On Thursday, Rio Grande Valley Border Patrol agents seized approximately 60 pounds of cocaine and nearly 900 pounds of marijuana.

Congressman Henry Cuellar (TX-28) and Congressman Michael McCaul (TX-10), chairmen of the U.S.-Mexico Interparliamentary Group, introduced the United States-Mexico Tourism Improvement Act.