Austin-Bergstrom International Airport pleaded for more supplemental Transportation Security Officers (TSOs) due to "unprecedented growth" the airport has seen in recent months.
Abbott made his remarks at a Texas Latino Conservatives luncheon in San Antonio on Tuesday afternoon.
Kylie DeFrance is an eighth-grade teacher at a Title I charter school in east Austin, where she spends $100 to $200 each month on menstrual products for her students.
KXAN sat down with the family of Douglas Kantor, the 25-year-old man who was shot and killed on June 12, 2021 after a mass shooting on Sixth Street in downtown Austin.