The Texas Home of Representatives is scheduled to reconvene Tuesday afternoon, though it is unclear whether or not the physique will be capable of as a number of Democratic members have fled the state over a Republican redistricting plan.
Gov. Greg Abbott, a Republican, on Tuesday ordered the Texas Division of Public Security to search out and arrest the Democrats who fled the state, an order Abbott mentioned will stay in impact till they’re “accounted for and introduced again” to Austin.
The Texas Home is scheduled to be in session at 1 p.m. CT, in accordance with the official web site.
Many Texas Democrats left the state on Sunday in protest of a Republican-led effort, backed by President Donald Trump, to create a brand new congressional map that might create as much as 5 new Republican seats and assist the occasion hold management of the usHouse within the 2026 midterm elections.
They obtained assist from blue state governors on Monday, together with New York’s Kathy Hochul and California’s Gavin Newsom. Each Hochul and Newsom mentioned they’d effort partisan redistricting in their very own states as a response to Texas.
On Tuesday morning, Democratic Nationwide Committee chairman Ken Martin will be a part of Texas Home Democrats and Illinois Gov JB Pritzker for a press convention.
The Texas Capitol is seen on August 04, 2025 in Austin, Texas.
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President Trump additionally weighed in on Tuesday morning amid the heightened tensions in a cellphone interview on CNBC, arguing Republicans are “entitled” to extra seats in Congress.
“We now have a possibility in Texas to choose up 5 seats. We now have a extremely good governor, and we’ve got good individuals in Texas. And I gained Texas. I bought the best vote within the historical past of Texas, as you in all probability know, and we’re entitled to 5 extra seats,” Trump claimed.
On the similar time, he criticized Democratic governors are engaged on plans to probably draw new congressional maps of their favor and used it as an argument for the efforts in Texas to proceed.
“That is all gerrymandered. California is gerrymandered. We must always have many extra seats in Congress. In California, it is all gerrymandered,” the president mentioned.
