Texas Health and Human Services Commission
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Sep 28, 2026
Tim HensonHOST
It cites employee accounts of Johnson yelling at children and handling them roughly, along with earlier supervision failures involving children left unattended.
Tim HensonHOST
According to the family's attorney, a Texas Health and Human Services investigation resulted in citations for prohibited discipline and failures to protect the child.
Tim HensonHOST
The lawsuit alleges the center accumulated 16 safety citations after opening in January 2024, so a, a short amount of time.
Tim HensonHOST
Two years.
Abigail RumanCORRESPONDENT
Texas's top elected officials directed state agencies to cut spending on budget requests ahead of the 2027 legislative session.
Abigail RumanCORRESPONDENT
HHSC's proposed cuts could affect more than 20 client services programs.
Abigail RumanCORRESPONDENT
Lynn Coles is with the advocacy group Every Texan.
Abigail RumanCORRESPONDENT
She was one of dozens of advocates who raised concerns about how the cuts could affect children, people with disabilities, and low-income Texans.
Lynn ColesSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
Recognizing that a three percent budget cut would detriment all Texans in the long term is necessary at this point.
Abigail RumanCORRESPONDENT
HHSC said it took a surgical approach to the proposed cuts to minimize the effect on client services.
Abigail RumanCORRESPONDENT
I'm Abigail Ruman in Dallas.
Shelby RoseCORRESPONDENT
There are just three games left in the regular season of Major League Baseball and the Houston Astros and Texas Rangers are tied for lead of the AL West.
Eric MarrHOST
for fiscal 2026 alone, but on track towards roughly $1.4 billion over the full five years.
Eric MarrHOST
The Health and Human Services Commission is running that money through a program it branded Rural Texas Strong, organized around six named initiatives.
Eric MarrHOST
So now let's zoom to the national level after that reminder.
Eric MarrHOST
CMS organized the entire technology conversation, which I've already mentioned is one of its most important, around four pillars, really.
Ken YondaGUEST
And it's really a shame that we've sort of over the years... gotten to this point because there's so many different people that are getting supplemental payments now.
Ken YondaGUEST
It's very confusing and so I hope that some of the efforts for more transparency of these programs, and I would say Health and Human Services Commission here in Texas is doing a pretty good job of making more of this information available to people.
Ken YondaGUEST
The more transparency, the more we can have good policy discussions about whether or not this is a good program going forward or shouldn't we just pay the hospitals a fair rate up front which has always been my idea rather than having to have these wonky kind of programs on the side
Michael HagertyHOST
so having this money uh restored i mean and i guess payments halted september 1st uh first time this federal government stopped the supplemental funding since it began in 2014. what does a halt of that kind of funding do to a hospital
Terry LankfordGUEST
Officially, I'm not... hearing any optimism.
Terry LankfordGUEST
I think the state HHSC, Health and Human Services Commission, plus the governor's office, this is a really interesting development.
Terry LankfordGUEST
The governor's office issued a letter last month to the health secretary, Robert Kennedy Jr., and said, hey, we calculate fair and square on the money that we contribute to pull down this money.
Terry LankfordGUEST
You know, a lot of federal money is based on how much Texas puts up.