“The state of Texas doesn’t HAVE to do anything, it just wont get it’s federal bride if it doesn’t obey, this is the same threat they used to force national speed limit restrictions on the states.”
Worse, these are bribes paid to you with your own money (minus a cut, of course)...this WILL stop, sooner or later.
If only, actually they are bribes paid to us with our great grandchildrens money, and this will only stop when the states reassert their constitutional powers through a state called constitutional convention.
But since everyone including conservatives is scared of what might come out of such a convention (they could do ANYTHING) it will probably never happen.