House Speaker Dustin Burrows has given quorum-breaking Texas Democrats an ultimatum: come back to Texas or the special session ends—and with it, efforts to ban THC and handle flood response die.

The announcement marks the latest sign that Trump's push to reconfigure districts ahead of the midterm is set to be a prolonged fight.

Gov. Greg Abbott's special session is underway in the Texas Legislature but with only one functioning chamber. The state House has not been able to meet this month while dozens of Democrats try to stall Republicans' efforts to reconfigure the state's congressional districts.

Texas Gov. Greg Abbott is preparing to call a second special session to address redistricting if a quorum is not met in the Texas House of Representatives by Friday.

In Austin, the Texas House of Representatives is scheduled to meet and the redistricting bill is technically scheduled for a second reading (which would not be a vote to pass it out of the chamber). But this cannot happen without a quorum present;