Today, President Donald J. Trump returns to Texas with a record to match the visit: tax relief in workers’ pockets, the most secure border in a generation, safer streets, and a surge of private investment creating new American jobs across the state. President Trump’s Working Families Tax Cuts put money back in Texans’ pockets. No Tax on Overtime: Approximately one in four Texas workers no longer pay federal income taxes on qualifying overtime pay. No Tax on Social Security: About four million Texas seniors benefit from the new senior deduction.
Bigger Refunds: Texas taxpayers saw average refunds of $4,344 — the second-highest in the nation. Rural Health Investments: Texas secured about $281 million in first-year Rural Health Transformation Program funding. Protecting Jobs and Wages: The Working Families Tax Cuts safeguarded 547,000 Texas jobs, $107 billion in state GDP, and $51 billion in workers’ wages. Violent crime is falling across the state as a result of President Trump’s law-and-order agenda. Violent crime fell 13% last year, including a 13% drop in murder and 11% drop in rape.
The top 25 most populous jurisdictions in Texas all posted lower overall crime rates than the year before. In the first half of 2026, Arlington homicides fell 60% from the first half of 2025. America’s Safest Big Cities recently placed Plano, Laredo, and Arlington in the national Top 20 — with Plano and Laredo in the Top 10. President Trump ended the Biden-era border crisis and is reimbursing Texas for the costs it carried. The Trump Administration has not released a single illegal alien at the border for 15 straight months through July.
Southern border apprehensions in July were 94% lower than the monthly average under Biden. Refugee admissions in the first ten months of this fiscal year are down almost 90% from 2024. …