TX University Payments

Texas taxpayers are funding foreign worker visas at our own public universities — while American graduates struggle to find work.

Every dollar tracked in this category comes from the Texas Comptroller’s public expenditure data. It shows what our state-funded universities are actually spending — and increasingly, that includes sponsoring H-1B visas to bring in foreign workers for positions that could go to qualified Americans, including the very students these universities just graduated.

With millions of Americans unemployed or underemployed, and more workers competing for fewer jobs, we believe Texas tax dollars should prioritize hiring Americans first — especially at institutions whose core mission is supposed to be preparing American students for the workforce, not importing labor to compete with them.

Each report below breaks down monthly payments by university, so you can see exactly how much taxpayer money is going where, and judge for yourself whether these hiring priorities match what Texas taxpayers actually want funded.