31 more Texas counties have been added to the major disaster declaration. This will help speed the recovery in regions across the state.

Today I was in Corpus Christi to announce a Statewide ‘Save Our Seniors’ program to vaccinate homebound seniors across Texas. The National Guard will support our mission to help vaccinate seniors & those who are most at risk of COVID. � @TexasGuard ⁩

GEUS: Customers won't see energy cost spikes. I'm seeing a lot of headlines like this. This is the right move by local utilities and power providers.

Today Texas surpassed 5 million vaccines administered. Those numbers will increase rapidly with the 1.5 million vaccines received this week + the weekly increases in vaccines sent from Washington. Also a new vaccine will be approved effective next week. Always voluntary.

Texas should get more than 200,000 initial doses of newly approved Johnson & Johnson vaccine. It requires just one shot. That is in addition to almost 1.5 million vaccine doses from Pfizer and Moderna this week. Always voluntary. via @KHOU 

Large-scale smuggling of people across the border is increasing. I've ordered the Dept. of Public Safety to deploy officers, and use every legal tool possible, to crack down on these smuggling operations. @TxDPS  #txlege  via @mySA 

Trump dashes Democrat hopes that the Republican Party will divide. "We're not starting new parties. "We have the Republican Party. It's going to unite and be stronger than ever before."