Texas Should Have The Right To Manage It's Own Money

My classmates article link from the Lone Star Blog
http://www.statesman.com/opinion/smith-let-texas-make-its-own-choices-1349387.html
I agree, Texas should be able to spend their money the way they want to but somehow Lloyd Dogget is so politically powerful that he prevented Texas getting $831 million from the federal government. The the national debt is about 13 trillion dollar so then 831 million dollars would be a small % of money that he denied so maybe that money could be of better use else where. Taking money from the "rainy day fund" for education is wrong its called the "rainy day fund" for accidents and natural disasters and funding more school programs is neither of them. Whats funny about Lloyd Dogget is that he wanted to increase the overall education spending in a time like this? I don't know where he gets his logic there must be a deeper reason for this but it does sound crazy to increase the spending for education and also taking it out of the rainy day fund sounds even more crazy.
I agree, I rather the federal government  go "in the hole" because those funds should be strictly for disasters like Hurricane Katrina or else the government would raise taxes as usual to build up the $3.5 trillion all over again. How corrupt could this government be if basically Lloyd Dogget had his way with the Texas spending budget especially with his logic sounds crazy unless I am misunderstanding something.