Texas Governor Clashes With Lieutenant Over Blackout Overcharges
- Lieutenant governor wants to reverse billions in power charges
- Governor Abbott says he doesn’t have the authority to do so
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Texas Governor Greg Abbott rebuffed the state’s second-ranking official, who has called for reversing billions of dollars in power overcharges stemming from last month’s historic winter storm.
Abbott said he doesn’t have the authority to comply with Lieutenant Governor Dan Patrick’s demand that $16 billion in excessive electricity costs be retroactively erased. This is the first time the leading Republicans in state government have publicly clashed over the pricing issue.