Can we draw the following hypothesis from the context? 

Context:

And as for why it happened, I'm no expert on the Texas procedures, but what my friends there tell me is that the governor opposed a measure put forward by Democrats in the legislature to expand the number of children that would be covered. And instead directed the money toward a tax cut, a significant part of which went to wealthy interests.

Hypothesis: The governor of Texas did not like what he was doing but he did it anyway.
It's impossible to say