A special session of the Texas Legislature will address the deadly floods in Hill Country, but the fireworks will come from President Trump’s demand for a newly gerrymandered House map.

House Democrats dreaming of retaking the chamber’s majority during the midterms may have found an ally in Democratic California Gavin

Every state "redraws its maps once a decade" after the census, said The Hill. But the president's party faces "traditional headwinds" in midterm elections, and the GOP's 220-212 majority in the House leaves it particularly vulnerable. "It's a game of inches right now," said one Republican strategist.

In order to stop the new maps from being created, House Speaker Hakeem Jeffries reportedly told Texas Democrats to “quorum bust,” or leave the state in order to prevent the legislature from meeting. Democrats used the tactic back in 2003 when Republicans did mid-decade redistricting to draw out several Democratic incumbents.

Spurred by President Donald Trump’s political team, Texas lawmakers will try to redraw the state’s congressional map to boost Republicans — but some GOP incumbents are uneasy.

In an effort to protect Republicans’ House seats in the 2026 midterms, Donald Trump’s White House is aggressively pushing for redistricting in Texas that would allow the GOP to pick up five additional seats in the state.