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Happy Monday, readers! In today’s edition, NBC News reporters in Austin, Boston, Chicago and Washington bring him the last of the confrontation of redistribution of districts in Texas, after the Democrats fled the state to deny the Republicans a quorum to advance with legislation. Then, our team in Washington Cava in the consequences of the dismissal of the president of Donald Trump, of the head of the Office of Labor Statistics.
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The redistribution clash of districts intensifies in Texas after the Democrats disperse, denying the Chamber of the States a quorum
By Ben Kamisar, Natasha Korecki, Ryan Chandler and Adam Edelman
The Texas State Chamber met briefly this afternoon in the midst of a plan of most of the Republican Party to re -draw the lines of the State Congress, with the Republican legislators voting to approve orders of civil arrest addressed to the dozens of Democrats who fled the State, blocking the Republicans to proceed with the plan.
Most of the more than 50 Democrats who left the State are in Illinois, where they have been welcome by Democratic Governor JB Pritzker. Others are in Boston and Albany, New York, where Democratic governor Kathy Hochul, in response to Texas, is pressing for a change in state law to allow the redistribution of districts in the future years.
There, beyond the scope of the State Arms Sergeant and the Texas Public Security Department, arrest orders can have little practical effect. But at home, the Democrats face fines fines, and Republican governor Greg Abbott is threatening to start the Democratic legislators of the position or send to the police to force them to return to the State.
Because the chamber business requires a quorum, 51 of the 62 members of the State Democratic Chamber can, when remaining outside the State, prevent the State Chamber led by Republicans to advance with legislation.
The absences deprived the house of their quorum, a reality quickly confirmed after the legislators attacked this afternoon.
Republican president Dustin Burrows admonished the dozens of Democrats who fled the State as “abandoned his position and turned his back on the constituents who swore to represent.”
The Democrats have denounced the redistribution movement of districts of the Republicans as a power game and criticized them for advancing in the draft redistribution law of districts before having legislatively responded to the devastating floods this summer that killed more than 100 people in Kerr County, outside San Antonio. Today, the burrows shot arguing that the Democrats are delaying their ability to advance in other legislative priorities, such as addressing floods.
Democratic state representative Ann Johnson de Houston, speaking last night after arriving at a press conference in a shopping center about 30 miles west Chicago, said the draft redistribution law of districts is only happening because Trump has “fear of the electorate next November.”
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The White House looks for a new BLS chief with ‘credibility’ and ‘experience’
By Jonathan Allen, Katherine Doyle and Peter Nicholas
White House officials began the week to fight to find a permanent replacement after President Donald Trump dismissed the Erika Mtntarfer work statistics commissioner on Friday, after a weakest and drastic job report report and drastic employment downward during the previous two months.
Steve Bannon, a Main Advisor of the White House in Trump’s first mandate that influences the Maga wing of the Republican Party, is pressing for EJ Antoni, the chief economist of the conservative foundation of the heritage. Antoni, a taxpayer to the 2025 project policy rubric, has been a BLS data skeptic for a long time. In the Podcast of Bannon last week, Antoni asked Mcentarfer to be fired shortly before Trump pressed the trigger.
In an interview with NBC News this afternoon, Antoni said he had not been contacted by anyone at the White House about work. West Wing officials are still running traps “in candidates for the position confirmed by the Senate, said a White House assistant.
The White House did not return a request for comments on whether Antoni is under consideration.
Trump said yesterday that he plans to announce a selection in the next three or four days.
“It will have to be someone who has a tremendous credibility and experience,” said a senior White House official who said Trump would probably listen to the thoughts of the Treasury Secretary, Scott Besent, the director of the National Economic Council Kevin Hasset and Stephen Miran, president of the National Economic Council.
Hiring such a person could be a challenge for Trump. By expelling Mtientefer, he said without foundation that employment numbers are subject to political manipulation, “manipulated to make Republicans and I look bad,” he said, raising the spectrum that a new commissioner would not release numbers that made Trump look bad.
“I find it very difficult to believe that his average person listened to Trump dismissed someone because he said he manipulated data and who has replaced them will produce reliable data,” said Kathryn Anne Edwards, an independent economic consultant and presenter of a podcast called The Optimist.
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🗞️ Today’s main stories
- ⏸️ Put in pause: The European Union announced that it will delay a plan to impose retaliation rates on US assets as trade negotiations continues with the Trump administration. Read more →
- 📈 Euphoria on Wall Street: The American Eagle-Sydney Sweeney “Great Jeans” controversy has caused the brand’s actions to shoot, thanks to President Donald Trump. Read more →
- 🏈 Returning for it: The former university soccer coach Derek Dooley, launched his offer for the Republican nomination for the United States Senate in Georgia. Read more →
- 🗳️ 2026 clock: The representative Nancy Mace, who has sometimes broken with her own Republican leaders often courted controversy, today launched an expected offer for Governor of South Carolina. Read more →
- ❌ NNEW Restrictions: The National Security Department will update visa policies to prevent transgender women from traveling to the US to participate in elite sporting events for women. Read more →
- 👤 In the shadows: When Susie Wiles took the stage at the largest event of the year of the Republican Party of Florida, it was clear who the show was, and, equally important, who is not. Read more →
That’s all of the politics desk for now. Today’s newsletter was compiled by Scott Bland and Dylan EBS.
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