Texas Republicans have come up with a new way to add heat to Democrats who fled the state to block a redistricting plan.
Local Fox14 in Austin reported that Texas House Speaker Dustin Burrows sent a communication to House reps that payroll direct deposits are suspended until a quorum is reached.
The Democrats who fled the state did so specifically to prevent a quorum from being reached in order to block majority Republicans from being able to advance their plan to set up new congressional district boundaries in the state.
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