WASHINGTON (WLS) — ABC7 has realized that a number of dozen Indiana state lawmakers attended a four-hour assembly with Trump administration officers on Tuesday afternoon.
ABC7 is instructed that almost all of that point was spent discussing coverage, together with Medicare, Medicaid, immigration, and different points.
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And on the finish, with Vice President JD Vance within the room, there was a dialogue about redrawing Indiana’s congressional map.
Republicans presently maintain seven of Indiana’s 9 Home seats, so the GOP may solely flip as much as two extra seats. However one Indiana state consultant who attended the assembly says that effort could be price it.
“As an individual who believes in my get together’s imaginative and prescient, I believe we should always do the whole lot, we should always use each instrument accessible to additional that agenda, and I do not suppose that we are able to try this if we lose the Home,” stated state Rep. Craig Haggard, R-central Indiana.
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Democrats and their supporters gathered exterior the Indiana Statehouse on Tuesday to protest that doable redistricting effort, which might require a particular session, doubtless within the fall.
“The sort of energy that they are attempting to remove from the folks, this isn’t who we’re. This isn’t what democracy is, and this isn’t what the folks of our state need,” stated state Rep. Mike Andrade, D-northwest Indiana.
That White Home assembly comes days after Texas lawmakers handed a brand new congressional map that would assist Republicans acquire 5 seats, and as California prepares to place a brand new map in entrance of voters that would give Democrats 5 extra seats, as effectively.
And again in Illinois, Gov. JB Pritzker has stated redistricting can be on the desk.
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