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Ken Paxton's Travel Security Cost Taxpayers Millions
Original: Ken Paxton’s Security for Travel Cost Taxpayers Millions. Just 1 in 6 of His Trips Had a Stated Business Purpose.
A ProPublica investigation found Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton has taken nearly 1,000 trips during his tenure, with security costing taxpayers $3.3 million. Records could tie only 138 of those trips, about $553,000 in security spending, to stated state business, meaning roughly five out of six trips had no documented purpose.
Why now: The finding raises questions about whether a sitting attorney general used public funds for travel without clear official justification.
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- Ken Paxton’s Security for Travel Cost Taxpayers Millions. Just 1 in 6 of His Trips Had a Stated Business Purpose. · ProPublica
Records show the Texas attorney general has taken nearly 1,000 trips during his tenure, costing $3.3 million in security. We could only connect 138 of those trips and $553,000 in security costs to state business.
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