{"id":1054865,"date":"2025-07-09T23:04:00","date_gmt":"2025-07-10T03:04:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/democrats.org\/?p=1054865"},"modified":"2025-07-10T08:05:33","modified_gmt":"2025-07-10T12:05:33","slug":"%f0%9f%9a%a8tx-gov-greg-abbott-calls-special-session-to-gerrymander-districts-following-trumps-budget-betrayal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/democrats.org\/news\/%f0%9f%9a%a8tx-gov-greg-abbott-calls-special-session-to-gerrymander-districts-following-trumps-budget-betrayal\/","title":{"rendered":"\u00a0\ud83d\udea8TX Gov. Greg Abbott Calls Special Session to Gerrymander Districts Following Trump\u2019s Budget Betrayal"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" height=\"449\" width=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/democrats.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Black-Logo-White-Fill-For-Email.png?w=1024\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1050776\" srcset=\"https:\/\/democrats.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Black-Logo-White-Fill-For-Email.png 1101w, https:\/\/democrats.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Black-Logo-White-Fill-For-Email.png?resize=300,132 300w, https:\/\/democrats.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Black-Logo-White-Fill-For-Email.png?resize=768,337 768w, https:\/\/democrats.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Black-Logo-White-Fill-For-Email.png?resize=1024,449 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Today, in the midst of disaster relief efforts in Kerr County, Texas Governor Greg Abbott announced that Republicans will attempt to gerrymander Texas maps even further in the upcoming Texas special legislative session in an attempt to save their majority from collapse following the passage of the GOP\u2019s billionaire budget bill.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong><em>In response, DNC Chair Ken Martin issued the following statement:<\/em><\/strong><em><\/em><br><br>\u201cGovernor Abbott\u2019s full attention should be focused on flood rescue and recovery efforts. Instead, he\u2019s using this tragic moment to plot a gerrymandering scheme while families are still reeling from a devastating disaster. Republicans have already gone all-in on taking away health care, taking away food, and raising costs on families. Now, they want to disenfranchise Texas voters during a dire emergency. This is despicable and needs to be called out.\u201d&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Texas Governor Greg Abbott called a special legislative session that includes redrawing state Congressional maps after Republicans\u2019 passed a disastrous, historically unpopular budget bill.&nbsp;<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/JeremySWallace\/status\/1943044486889902478?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5Eserp%7Ctwgr%5Etweet\">Jeremy Wallace, Houston Chronicle:<\/a> \u201cBREAKING: Gov. Greg Abbott has just released an agenda for a special session starting July 21. It includes redrawing the Texas Congressional Districts ahead of the 2026 midterms to help the Republicans eek out more seats in case GOP lose seats in other states.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Donald Trump\u2019s billionaire-first budget is <\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.kff.org\/affordable-care-act\/press-release\/poll-public-views-big-beautiful-bill-unfavorably-by-nearly-a-2-1-margin-democrats-independents-and-non-maga-republicans-oppose-it-while-maga-supporters-favor-it-favorability-ero\/\"><strong>wildly unpopular<\/strong><\/a><strong> with the American people.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>An <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kff.org\/medicaid\/poll-finding\/kff-health-tracking-poll-views-of-the-one-big-beautiful-bill\/\">overwhelming majority<\/a> of Americans, including one in three Republicans, disapprove of Trump\u2019s billionaire-first budget<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/static.foxnews.com\/foxnews.com\/content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/fox_june-13-16-2025_national_topline_june-18-release.pdf\">59%<\/a> of Americans oppose the GOP\u2019s budget bill, with only 23% saying the proposal will help their family and 49% saying it will hurt them<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/harvardharrispoll.com\/press-release-june-2025\/\">52%<\/a> of Americans believe the budget proposal will make the economy worse, including one in four Republicans and 56% of independents<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.kff.org\/medicaid\/poll-finding\/kff-health-tracking-poll-views-of-the-one-big-beautiful-bill\/\">64%<\/a> of Americans hold an unfavorable opinion of the GOP\u2019s tax and budget bill, including 34% of Republicans\u00a0<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>When people hear about the bill\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kff.org\/affordable-care-act\/press-release\/poll-public-views-big-beautiful-bill-unfavorably-by-nearly-a-2-1-margin-democrats-independents-and-non-maga-republicans-oppose-it-while-maga-supporters-favor-it-favorability-ero\/\">drastic health care cuts<\/a>, support shrinks and opposition grows \u2014 including among Trump\u2019s own supporters<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>After being told that the bill would decrease funding for local hospitals, favorability of the bill falls to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kff.org\/affordable-care-act\/press-release\/poll-public-views-big-beautiful-bill-unfavorably-by-nearly-a-2-1-margin-democrats-independents-and-non-maga-republicans-oppose-it-while-maga-supporters-favor-it-favorability-ero\/\">21%<\/a> while unfavorability rises to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kff.org\/affordable-care-act\/press-release\/poll-public-views-big-beautiful-bill-unfavorably-by-nearly-a-2-1-margin-democrats-independents-and-non-maga-republicans-oppose-it-while-maga-supporters-favor-it-favorability-ero\/\">79%<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today, in the midst of disaster relief efforts in Kerr County, Texas Governor Greg Abbott announced that Republicans will attempt to gerrymander Texas maps even further in the upcoming Texas special legislative session in an attempt to save their majority from collapse following the passage of the GOP\u2019s billionaire budget bill.&nbsp; In response, DNC Chair [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":292,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1054865","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-press-release"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.0 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>\u00a0\ud83d\udea8TX Gov. 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