Every session of the state legislature seems to have this form of a bill put in the hopper, where there's a call for Texas to possibly secede from the United States for one reason or another.
A state rep from Royse City, Bryan Slaton filed the bill called the "TEXIT Referendum Act". He said Texas should declare its independence, and put it to the voters in November.
There's a problem with that whole idea. It would violate federal law.
There are other factors that some people don't think about when there's talk of seceding. There are water rights from the Rio Grande, or the Colorado rivers and losing federal funds from DC, the power grid, and possible tariffs on Texas oil. Another minor thing, what happens to college sports in Texas? They couldn't be in the NCAA and that could billions.
On today's Ask The Expert, Dr. Eric McDaniel joined us. He's an Associate Professor in Department of Government at University of Texas
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