HARRIS COUNTY REPUBLICAN PARTY 

EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE RESOLUTION 

REVERSE MISSION CREEP AT ALL LEVELS OF GOVERNMENT

Whereas, President Trump has created the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) and put Elon Musk in charge to “maximize governmental efficiency and productivity;” 

Whereas, Mr. Musk is targeting symptoms of mission creep by taking steps to eliminate wasteful DEI (Diversity, Equity, Inclusion) programs throughout federal agencies, and reducing the power and authority of such agencies as the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, Department of Education, and United States Agency for International Development (USAID), with the prospect that some will eventually be eliminated by Congress; 

Whereas, Mission creep is an ever-increasing problem in Texas with a variety of programs at the state and local levels that subsidize private sector firms and non-profit (NGO) activity,some of which seem to have become slush funds to be used to subsidize special interests, fund pet projects of elected officials, and to pay for bogus environmental scams and social engineering projects such as DEI; 

Whereas, the most notorious of these damaging programs are Tax Increment Reinvestment Zones, where 28 have been established in Houston alone, which allow unelected and unaccountable bureaucrats to divert municipal tax revenues into favored parts of a municipality, or a county, for arbitrarily chosen betterment projects, with many believing are run by political insiders and cronies; 

THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED, that the Harris County Republican Party Executive Committee urges the Texas legislature to implement the Trump strategies to make government great in Texas by scouring the state list of programs with a goal of rolling back mission creep, eliminating programs and agencies that have wasted precious taxpayer resources, hampered the efficiency and productivity of government, and wrongly favored insider business interests over other business owners; and, be it further 

RESOLVED, that a copy of the adopted resolution be transmitted electronically to every SREC Member as well as to each of the Texas House and Senate members within three (3) business days. 

Adopted this twenty-fourth day of February, 2025, Harris County, Texas. 

Respectfully Submitted,

Thomas A. Bazan 

Harris County Precinct 661, Chairman 

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