The Democrats of Texas weigh their final game and Trump makes his mark on DC: from the political bureau

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In today’s edition, Ben Kamisar and Natasha Korecki report how Democratic legislators who fled Texas in the middle of the redistribution fight begin to consider their end game. In addition, Andrea Mitchell explores how President Donald Trump leaves his mark on institutions through the country’s capital.

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Texas Democrats plot their exit strategy

By Ben Kamisar and Natasha Korecki

Texas is expected to end its first special legislative session Friday and immediately start a new one, the dozens of democratic legislators who fled the state to block the republicans’ redistribution proposal are traveling a plan for their return home.

The Democrats of Texas met late at night on Tuesday, then Wednesday, especially in small groups, to discuss their next steps and what their ultimate outing strategy looked like after spending the last 10 days of the state, according to four sources close to talks.

But these sources said that legislators did not yet have a complete consensus on an exit plan. “It is difficult to ensure that people on the same wavelength,” said one of the sources, which has obtained anonymity to speak frankly about the internal strategy of the party.

However, there seems to be an agreement on one point: the Democrats will not return to Austin until the Republicans officially take the first special session. They are starting to describe their ability to prevent the Republicans from passing their new card which could make the party up to five seats in the American house during the first special session as proof of victory.

“Our commitment was only to kill this special corrupt session. What we will do, what we are going to do in the future, we are in discussion at the moment,” said the president of the Democratic Caucus of Texas Democratic, Gene Wu on Wednesday on Wednesday.Meet the press now. “”

Wu said they would not finalize their next steps until there is “a consensus among our members”. But he noted that the Democrats had other paths to repel the effort to rediscover the GOP before the courts, through the legislative process and with other states, such as California, thwart new cards from the congress.

“We can fight this fight as long as we can do. But we have other strategies, other methods to fight it,” said Wu. “It should not just be a quorum break, it’s not just one thing or the other. We can throw everything away. ”

Texas Republican leaders promised to call “Special session after special sessionAnd they need a handful of democrats to give in to make a quorum to the state chamber so that they can go ahead with their redistribution plan.

Thus, although it seems likely that Democrats will succeed in delaying the process sufficiently to force a second special session, there is a recognition among the caucus that their protest must end a certain point.

“From the start, they knew that they were never going to stay from Texas forever. People did not expect them to do so. The purpose that the smartest of them was fixed: we must draw national attention to this issue so that other states are ready to counter if the Republicans have really done this,” a assistant to a Texas House Breaking Quorum Quorum Queorum Quorum

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In relation: How redistribution has become the burning center of democratic policy

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How Trump is reshanging DC

Analysis by Andrea Mitchell

President Donald Trump does not only take control of the national capital police, with FBI and DEA agents during night patrols in Georgetown and armored vehicles lined up in front of the Washington monument.

Today, the recently self -proclaimed president of Kennedy Center announced that he would be the first American president in Organize the annual honors of the Kennedy Center honors in December. The event was initially modified by Walter Cronkite then Caroline Kennedy, but more recently by artists like Gloria Estefan and Queen Latifah.

Asset Also told journalists He was “98%” involved in the choice of this year’s winners for one of the country’s highest prizes: Sylvester Stallone, Michael Crawford, George Strait, Gloria Gaynor and Kiss. Unlike his predecessors, Trump never welcomed the winners at the White House or assisted the Gala concert during his first mandate, citing criticism from some of the Hollywood stars.

Elsewhere in Washington, the administration now provides for stamp Of eight of the museums of the Smithsonian Institution, notably American history, African-American history, air and space and the National Museum of American Indians. They all operate free of charge and are among the most popular tourist destinations in the city. The White House says it wants to make sure that museums celebrate “American exceptionalism” before next year’s celebration of the nation’s 250th anniversary.

Criticism by many, if not most, historians, is that it may distort the reality of the Foundation of America, which understands the reality that the genius of the creation of the founding fathers was marked by the reality that they were all white, male and largely immovable owners – including many slave owners. He generated a calculation which finally led to the brutality of the civil war, followed by a century of legalized segregation and continuous generational poverty and second -class citizenship for millions of Americans.

The administration has already had an impact on the Smithsonian, whose board of directors is led by the chief judge of the Supreme Court and by law also includes the vice-president. The largely acclaimed director of the National Portrait Gallery, criticized by the White House, resigned. The museums of American history and African-American history were both under fire. According to the organization of 6,000 members of American historians, nation’s museums and historic parks are “in the process of attack” by Trump March 27 Executive Decree Entitled “Restore the truth and mental health to American history”. A White House spokesperson calls him common sense.

Critics say that this cultural battle is an outgrowth of a war against the facts, with more serious implications with regard to the recent cancellation of the scientific conclusions caused for a long time on climate change and the effectiveness of vaccines. In a sentence invented by the late Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan, “you are entitled to your opinion, but not to your facts.”

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