HARRIS COUNTY, Texas — Harris County is facing a projected budget deficit that could be as high as $275 million for fiscal year 2026 .

Precinct 4 Commissioner Lesley Briones says her new budget plan is balanced and has zero deficit.

“We have protected all core services. There will be minimal impact to any forward facing services the county offers the people. And we did it without having to go to the voters to ask them to raise their taxes further,” she told us on Inside Texas Politics.

There is one small catch: property taxes are expected to go up ever so slightly to 62 cents per $100 in taxable value to fund the Harris County hospital district. For a $500,000 home, that two cent increase amounts to roughly $100 in additional property taxes per year.

Commissioner Briones says th

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