**AUSTIN, TEXAS — **After reports that Donald Trump told the Texas Republican Congressional delegation that the GOP will seek to get 5 new red seats in the upcoming Special Session, the Texas House Democratic Caucus issued the following statement:
*"Greg Abbott is trying to use a the Texas flooding tragedy to grab political power instead of answering questions about how his management failed.
"He said that people who want answers are losers. That’s not how this works, Greg. Loser behavior is not taking responsibility when you leave communities without the resources they need.
"Greg Abbott is choosing in this special session to put lines on a map over the lives that were on the line in Kerr County. Abbott and the Texas GOP are doing this because they want to send more Trump Allies to Washington who will create more chaos that no Republican, Democrat, or independent voted for last year.
"Texas House Democrats are going to fight this and use whatever means necessary to do so."*