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✓ Kept the Border Secure Acting Comptroller Kelly Hancock is working with Governor Abbott to ensure Texas is reimbursed for the billions the state has spent securing the border. He strongly supported Operation Lone Star and was with Governor Abbott and President Trump when the first portion of the Texas border wall went up. Furthermore, his office is implementing immigration enforcement grants, providing funds to Sheriff departments that partner with ICE to detain and deport criminal illegal aliens.
 

✓ Ended DEI in State Contracting As Acting Comptroller, Kelly Hancock suspended the state’s Historically Underutilized Business (HUB) program – basically Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion in state government contracting. This ensures government contracts should be earned based on performance and best value, not race or sex quotas.
 

✓ Launched Texas Education Freedom After supporting education freedom for decades as a School Board member, State Representative, and State Senator, Acting Comptroller Kelly Hancock is now implementing Texas Education Freedom Accounts – the largest day-one school choice program in American history. Up to 100,000 students will have the freedom to choose the best education path for them starting 2026-27 school year.
 

✓ Excluded Schools with Terrorist Ties from Texas Education Freedom As he implements Texas education freedom, Acting Comptroller Kelly Hancock is ensuring no schools with ties to terrorist organizations or foreign adversaries – like the Council on American-Islamic Relations or Chinese Communist Party – are not be permitted to participate. No Texas tax dollars will be funneled to bad actors that are hostile to our country, undermine our values, or seek to do us harm.
 

✓ Leading Texas DOGE Acting Comptroller Kelly Hancock is serving as an official member of the Texas Regulatory Efficiency Office Advisory Panel – also known as Texas DOGE – to root out waste and unnecessary regulation. As a small business owner, Hancock is committed to cutting red tape to ensure Texans thrive.
 

✓ Increased Transparency Acting Comptroller Hancock is committed to ensuring every taxpayer dollar is tracked, protected, and used wisely and efficiently. To achieve this, the office is modernizing the state's core financial systems, bringing government technology out of the 1980s by implementing modern cloud-computing systems. Additionally, the office launched the new TexStats Regional Data Dashboard to give Texans, businesses, and local leaders real-time access to key economic and demographic data, which helps attract new businesses and economic development projects.