Gov. Greg Abbott has so far spent nearly $3 million in taxpayer money busing migrants out of Texas

Gov. Greg Abbott has racked up nearly $3 million in state expenses to bus migrants from South Texas to the nation’s capital, a move blasted by critics as an election-year stunt, Britain’s Daily Mail reports. As of June 7, Texas has used $2.9 million in taxpayer money to send roughly 1,800 migrants to Washington, D.C., according to Texas Division of Emergency Management (TDEM) documents obtained by the newspaper. More than $1 million of that total has gone to covering security costs, while driver salaries and GPS tracking also factored into the total, the numbers show.