HARRIS COUNTY, Texas (KTRK) -- Harris County Judge Lina Hidalgo documented her trade mission to Paris earlier this year on social media.

Photos posted on her office's social media page show meetings in June in Paris with business leaders and dignitaries. One caption read, the county was "deepening ties" between Harris County and France.

Per Harris County's travel policy, commissioners have to approve international travel, and they did not approve spending taxpayer money to fund Hidalgo's trip to Paris for the trade mission.

So, she turned to her own campaign dollars to pay for it, but didn't let her colleagues forget it.

In early May, Judge Hidalgo asked county commissioners to approve her using taxpayer money in her office's budget for herself and essential members of her staff to tr

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