{"id":159380,"date":"2025-08-04T01:04:49","date_gmt":"2025-08-04T01:04:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/texas-democrats-leave-the-state-in-an-extraordinary-move-and-a-slow-trickle-of-gaza-aid-weekend-rundown-nbc-news\/"},"modified":"2025-08-04T01:04:49","modified_gmt":"2025-08-04T01:04:49","slug":"texas-democrats-leave-the-state-in-an-extraordinary-move-and-a-slow-trickle-of-gaza-aid-weekend-rundown-nbc-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/texas-democrats-leave-the-state-in-an-extraordinary-move-and-a-slow-trickle-of-gaza-aid-weekend-rundown-nbc-news\/","title":{"rendered":"Texas Democrats leave the state in an extraordinary move, and a slow trickle of Gaza aid: Weekend Rundown – NBC News"},"content":{"rendered":"

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In an extraordinary move to counter Republican redistricting in Texas<\/strong><\/a>, dozens of Democrats in the state House of Representatives headed to Illinois to deny a necessary quorum<\/strong><\/a> for the GOP to move forward with those efforts.
The roughly 30 Democrats are expected to stay for the week in a plan brokered with Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker, who met with the Texas caucus late last month and has directed his staff to provide logistical support for their stay.
\u201cWe\u2019re leaving Texas to fight for Texans,\u201d Texas House Democratic Caucus Chair Gene Wu said in a statement. \u201cWe will not allow disaster relief to be held hostage to a Trump gerrymander. We\u2019re not walking out on our responsibilities; we\u2019re walking out on a rigged system that refuses to listen to the people we represent. As of today, this corrupt special session is over.\u201d
Last week, Texas Republicans released a proposed congressional map that would give the GOP a path to pick up five seats in next year\u2019s midterm elections. It followed President Donald Trump\u2019s public pressure for a new map<\/strong><\/a> in the state as he works to retain a majority in Congress in what historically is a difficult year for the party holding the White House.
The proposed map would shift district lines in ways that would target current Democratic members of Congress in and around Austin, Dallas and Houston, as well as two already endangered Democrats representing South Texas districts that Trump carried last year.
Humanitarian organizations say the amount of aid that has entered Gaza since Israel said it would pause military action in some areas<\/strong><\/a> is insufficient to stop a growing number of Palestinians dying from hunger.
Israel has allowed only a limited amount of aid to enter the enclave since it lifted a total blockade this year. Most of the aid has been distributed by the Israel-backed group known as the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation, and other humanitarian organizations have said Israeli restrictions have hampered their efforts to distribute aid.
\u201cThis is not an adequate response,\u201d Jeanette Bailey, the International Rescue Committee\u2019s global practice lead and director of research for nutrition, said in a phone interview.
A gradual entry of aid \u201chere or there,\u201d she said, \u201cis not going to be adequate to prevent us from entering into a full-blown famine where the numbers of deaths go way, way up.\u201d
White House economic adviser Kevin Hassett defended President Donald Trump\u2019s decision to fire<\/strong><\/a> Bureau of Labor Statistics Commissioner Erika McEntarfer, as well as Trump\u2019s claim that weaker-than-expected jobs reports were \u201crigged,\u201d but he failed to produce any evidence to support the claim.
Hassett said on NBC News\u2019 \u201cMeet the Press\u201d that installing Trump\u2019s \u201cown people\u201d will help achieve more \u201ctransparent and reliable\u201d jobs reports in the future.
\u201cWhat we need is a fresh set of eyes over the BLS,\u201d Hassett, the director of the National Economic Council, told moderator Kristen Welker.
Several Republicans, including Sen. Rand Paul, of Kentucky, questioned the firing<\/strong><\/a>.
\u201cWe have to look somewhere for objective statistics. When the people providing the statistics are fired, it makes it much harder to make judgments that, you know, the statistics won\u2019t be politicized,\u201d Paul told NBC News on Friday.
Meanwhile, Sen. Alex Padilla, D-Calif., accused Trump of trying to \u201cweaponize\u201d labor statistics for his own agenda. Padilla said the Senate would evaluate the \u201cindependence\u201d of a new BLS commissioner when it comes time to confirm a new one.
\u201cWhen [Trump\u2019s] trying to weaponize the Bureau of Labor Statistics, that tells you a lot about their insecurity about the economy and the state of economic affairs,\u201d Padilla told Welker.
The Backstreet Boys are playing to sold-out crowds.
Lindsay Lohan is starring in a new \u201cFreaky Friday\u201d movie.
And former \u201cDawson\u2019s Creek\u201d co-stars and exes Katie Holmes and Joshua Jackson were recently spotted filming a new project in New York City.
No, it\u2019s not the early 2000s \u2014 but millennials feel like they\u2019re <\/strong>so<\/strong><\/em> back<\/strong><\/a>.
A recent surge in millennial-focused pop culture serves as \u201cthe next level of escapism\u201d for an uncertain generation, said Kate Kennedy, author of \u201cOne in a Millennial: On Friendship, Feelings, Fangirls, and Fitting In.\u201d
\u201cIt returns us to a time when our biggest worry was getting in line for a CD, not whether we would be able to afford a house,\u201d Kennedy said.
\u201cI think we\u2019re a more lonely and isolated generation as adults than we ever anticipated that we would be in our youth,\u201d she said, adding that millennials \u201cstraddle two very different eras in terms of technology and information.\u201d
I can\u2019t be doing this forever, just waiting for the dust to settle and things to kind of normalize again \u2014 I need a job.
Recent college graduates searching for jobs are finding that practical degrees, work experience and even connections are no match for sluggish hiring<\/strong><\/a> \u2014 with a bleak labor market, ghosting employers and a \u201cblack hole\u201d into which 1,000 applications can fall unanswered.
Nick Duffy is a platforms editor for NBC News.
Amina Kilpatrick is a weekend platforms editor for NBC News.
Jeremy Mikula is the weekend director of platforms for NBC News.
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