Texas Scorecard By Robert Montoya and Ross Kecseg February 11, 2020
The Trump administration denied a $38 million funding request for Kay Granger’s real estate project, instead funding a feasibility study that the congresswoman has repeatedly resisted.As the March Republican primary approaches, President Donald Trump’s administration dropped a bombshell on Monday. Panther Island—the controversial pet project of U.S. Rep. Kay Granger (R–Fort Worth)—will not receive any federal funding this year. Instead, only $1.5 million will be released for a feasibility study that Granger and her son have fought against out of fear that it would kill the project.
Granger has been overhead on the campaign trail misleading constituents by claiming a flood study to prove the project’s merit had been completed. In fact, last week she repeated the false claim directly to Texas Scorecard when asked if the study was done and where it resided:
“Of course there has,†Granger insisted. “I’m sure the water district has it. The Corps of Engineers did that. … They can’t do [the project] without a study. The Corps of Engineers said you’ve got a flood control problem. You can’t maintain the floods, and so, the city [of Fort Worth asked], ‘What do we do?’ And so, I think it was a seven-year study, and they came back and said, ‘Here’s what you do.’â€
Questions now surround the strength of President Trump’s endorsement of the Fort Worth congresswoman—as well as her waning influence in Congress—after the administration delayed funding and is requiring a study Granger has fought hard to avoid.
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