Ken Paxton's staffers routinely went over budget by staying at lavish hotels during trips, files show

Ken Paxton wasn't the only one in his office spending lavishly on travel at the taxpayer's expense, according to documents obtained by the Current.

Credit: Wikimedia Commons / Gage Skidmore After the Texas Tribune and ProPublica reported that Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton took nearly 1,000 out-of-state trips at a cost of more than $3 million to taxpayers, documents obtained by the Current show he wasn't the only one in his office spending lavishly on travel.

American Oversight investigators provided the Current with documents that the nonpartisan watchdog group says reveal Paxton created a "culture of excess" that led to numerous cases of employees going over state-imposed expense limits at luxury hotels.