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DeSantis under pressure as Florida redraw could tip House balance in GOP map fight
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All eyes are on Florida next week, as it is likely the final battleground in the high-stakes fight between President Donald Trump and Republicans versus Democrats over congressional redistricting.
A special session of the Florida legislature, called earlier this year by Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis to redraw the right-leaning state’s U.S. House districts, kicks off on Tuesday.
At stake is which party will control the House of Representatives during the final two years of Trump’s second term in the White House.
Republicans and Democrats over the past nine months have been redrawing the House district maps in states they control to gain partisan advantages heading into this year’s midterm elections, when the GOP will be defending its razor-thin congressional majority.
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A person walks to vote in the Virginia redistricting referendum at Lyles-Crouch Traditional Academy, Tuesday, April 21, 2026, in Alexandria, Virginia. The referendum narrowly passed but still faces legal hurdles. (Julia Demaree Nikhinson/AP Photo)
Lawmakers in the GOP-dominated Florida legislature are meeting one week after voters in Virginia narrowly passed a referendum that, if it clears legal hurdles, will give the state’s Democratic-controlled legislature — rather than the current nonpartisan commission — temporary redistricting power through the 2030 election. It could result in a 10-1 advantage for Democrats in Virginia’s congressional delegation, up from their current 6-5 edge.
The vote in Virginia put more pressure on DeSantis to deliver a new map in Florida that could create between three and five more right-leaning congressional districts.
«Florida has the right and the intention to do it. And my view is that they should,» House Speaker Mike Johnson told reporters on Wednesday when asked if Florida’s maps should be redrawn in time for the midterms.
A Florida-based Republican in the governor’s wider political circle who asked for anonymity to speak more freely told Fox News Digital, «Gov. DeSantis is under tremendous pressure to deliver an answer to Virginia for Trump and Speaker Johnson.»
But that source added that despite pressure from the president’s political team, the map DeSantis may unveil on Monday on the eve of the special legislative session will likely aim for three rather than five additional right-leaning districts.
The road ahead for DeSantis is not easy: the governor already pushed through a new House map four years ago, which helped secure the GOP’s current 20-8 majority in Florida’s U.S. House delegation. Redrawing the map again just four years later is harder.
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Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis of Florida speaks during a press conference in Miami, Fla., on April 10, 2025. (Joe Raedle/Getty Images)
There are also legal hurdles DeSantis faces: It is illegal under Florida’s constitution to redraw maps for partisan gain, known as gerrymandering. Democrats have vowed lawsuits against any new map that may come out of Tallahassee.
U.S. House Democratic leader Rep. Hakeem Jeffries last week took aim at what some are dubbing «dummymander,» a play on words for «gerrymander,» and argued that redrawing the maps in Florida — where the GOP suffered setbacks earlier this spring in special legislative elections — would harm Republican members of Congress.
«Our message to Florida Republicans is, ‘F around and find out,’» Jeffries told reporters as he referenced next week’s redistricting legislative session. Jeffries said the redistricting move would lead Democrats to increase their target list of vulnerable Florida House Republicans.
He warned DeSantis and Republicans that «the electoral tide is turning in Florida.»
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Pushing back, DeSantis said, «Please. Be my guest. I will pay for you to come down to Florida to campaign.»
«I’ll put you up in the Florida governor’s mansion. We will take you fishing,» the governor added.
DeSantis has argued that the last U.S. Census was full of flaws and claimed that it robbed Florida of an extra congressional seat. And the governor has also pointed to the major influx of new residents this decade who moved to Florida from other states in the wake of the COVID pandemic.
Not all Florida Republicans are on board with the effort, due to concerns it may backfire.
A Florida-based GOP strategist told Fox News Digital some Florida members of Congress «don’t want this.»
And pointing to the legislature, where there are some grumblings, the strategist, who asked to remain anonymous to speak clearly, said «some don’t want to do it, but their hands will be forced.»
The Florida Capitol building in Tallahassee, home to the state legislature, is shown in this image. (Stephen M. Dowell/Orlando Sentinel/Tribune News Service)
Florida has already moved the filing deadline for congressional candidates back from April to June, but for candidates already running for Congress, the late-in-the-game map redraw brings plenty of complications.
«Changing the map changes the race. Candidates have been interviewed for a job description that just got a requirement change,» veteran Florida-based GOP donor and bundler Dan Eberhart told Fox News Digital.
Eberhart noted that «these candidates are going to have to call an audible really soon – changing districts and probably new competitors.»
Florida may be the final battlefield in a political war that started a year ago.
Aiming to prevent what happened during his first term in the White House when Democrats reclaimed the House majority in the 2018 midterms, Trump last spring first floated the idea of rare, but not unheard of, mid-decade congressional redistricting.
The mission was simple: redraw congressional district maps in red states to pad the GOP’s fragile House majority to keep control of the chamber in the midterms, when the party in power traditionally faces political headwinds and loses seats.
President Donald Trump, seen at an event in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, D.C., on Thursday, April 23, 2026, has urged GOP-controlled states to redraw their congressional district maps. (Will Oliver/EPA/Bloomberg via Getty Images)
When asked by reporters last summer about his plan to add Republican-leaning House seats across the country, the president said, «Texas will be the biggest one. And that’ll be five.»
Republican Gov. Greg Abbott of Texas called a special session of the GOP-dominated state legislature to pass the new map.
But Democratic state lawmakers, who broke quorum for two weeks as they fled Texas in a bid to delay the passage of the redistricting bill, energized Democrats across the country.
Among those leading the fight against Trump’s redistricting was Democratic Gov. Gavin Newsom of California.
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California voters in November overwhelmingly passed Proposition 50, a ballot initiative that temporarily sidetracked the left-leaning state’s nonpartisan redistricting commission and returned the power to draw the congressional maps to the Democratic-dominated legislature.
That is expected to result in five more Democratic-leaning congressional districts in California, which aimed to counter the move by Texas to redraw their maps.
The fight quickly spread beyond Texas and California.
California Gov. Gavin Newsom speaks during an election night press conference at a California Democratic Party office in Sacramento on Nov. 4, 2025. (Godofredo A. Vásquez/AP Photo)
Republican-controlled Missouri and Ohio and swing state North Carolina, where the GOP dominates the legislature, have drawn new maps as part of the president’s push.
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In blows to Republicans, a Utah district judge late last year rejected a congressional district map drawn by the state’s GOP-dominated legislature and instead approved an alternate that will create a Democratic-leaning district ahead of the midterms.
Republicans in Indiana’s Senate in December defied Trump, shooting down a redistricting bill that had passed the state House. The showdown in the Indiana statehouse grabbed plenty of national attention.
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President Donald Trump on Friday announced a major expansion of his administration’s initiative aimed at helping Americans access discounted prescription medications.
In a Truth Social post, Trump said the government-backed website TrumpRx.gov has added 160 prescription drugs, bringing the total number of discounted medications available through the program to more than 800.
«I am pleased to announce that TrumpRx.gov is adding another 160 Prescription Drugs, at highly discounted prices, for a new total of over 800 of the most commonly-used Prescription Drugs,» Trump wrote.
«TrumpRx.gov will now provide clear, transparent, and DISCOUNTED offerings for FOUR OUT OF FIVE of every prescription filled by Americans,» he added.
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President Donald Trump announced an expansion of the TrumpRx program, which the administration says will provide discounted pricing on more than 800 prescription drugs. (Julia Demaree Nikhinson/AP)
Trump unveiled the initiative in February, arguing that Americans have long paid more for prescription drugs than consumers in many other countries.
The website was launched after the administration finalized agreements with 16 major pharmaceutical companies under so-called «most-favored-nation» pricing arrangements.
Under the agreements, participating drugmakers received tariff-related exemptions while agreeing to lower prices for certain medications and extend discounted pricing to eligible cash-paying consumers through TrumpRx, according to the administration.
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Shelves with prescription drugs inside a pharmacy in Los Angeles, California, US, on Wednesday, Aug. 6, 2025. (Eric Thayer/Bloomberg via Getty Images)
Companies including Eli Lilly and Novo Nordisk are participating in the program and have agreed to reduce prices on popular GLP-1 weight-loss medications.
Administration officials have also highlighted discounts on a range of other products, including inhalers, HIV treatments, diabetes medications and fertility drugs.
TrumpRx.gov allows users to search for discounted medications, view estimated savings and generate coupons for participating prescriptions.
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The Trump administration launched TrumpRx.gov, a website designed to direct patients to drugmakers’ websites. (Trump RX)
Trump said the initiative builds on efforts from his first term to reduce prescription drug costs.
«I was proud to make History during my First Term when we lowered Drug Prices, even if by a tiny percentage, because this amounted to a HUGE change compared to other presidents only raising Drug Prices, endlessly and significantly, every year,» Trump wrote.
«Then, during my Second Term, I decided to go BIG with Most Favored Nations Pricing — That is to say, we pay no more or, ideally, less than any other Country for the same exact Drug,» he continued. «Now we are cutting Prices, and cutting them by a LOT, sometimes by 400 or 500 or 600 Percent!»
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President Donald Trump speaks about TrumpRx in the South Court Auditorium of the Old Eisenhower Executive Office Building on the White House campus in Washington on Feb. 5, 2026, as Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services administrator Dr. Mehmet Oz listens. (AP Images)
Trump also claimed the program has generated significant savings for consumers.
«These Most Favored Nations Deals have already, in fact, saved American Patients over 400 Million Dollars since the launch of TrumpRx.gov,» he said.
The president further argued that tariffs played a key role in securing the pricing agreements.
«Of course, Most Favored Nations would not be possible without my use of TARIFFS, which are getting other Countries to ‘pay up’ instead of relying on American Patients getting ripped off, as they were for decades until I ordered an immediate ‘stop’ to this very unfair and, frankly, foolish situation,» Trump wrote.
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«This is all great news, and I have instructed my Administration to secure more Most Favored Nations Deals, more Partnerships, and Lower Prices for every American Patient,» he added.
Fox News Digital’s Emma Bussey contributed to this report.
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Más allá de la mesa familiar: cuáles son los factores que influyen en lo que comen los niños, según la ciencia
Lo que un niño come en su casa rara vez depende de una sola decisión individual. La evidencia en salud pública y nutrición infantil coincide en que la alimentación está moldeada por factores del entorno, del tiempo disponible, del presupuesto, de la cultura familiar y de la presión comercial. Incluso cuando madres y padres quieren “hacerlo bien”, el contexto puede empujar hacia opciones más rápidas, más baratas o más presentes en la vida cotidiana.
Un marco clásico de la Organización Mundial de la Salud (OMS) sobre alimentación complementaria plantea, desde hace décadas, que mejorar la dieta infantil exige algo más que información: requiere identificar qué facilita y qué bloquea conductas saludables, incluyendo el acceso a alimentos adecuados y la posibilidad real de sostener rutinas de preparación y de alimentación seguras.
En la misma línea, revisiones más recientes sobre hábitos alimentarios infantiles describen que el hogar es un “nicho” donde influyen decisiones de compra, disponibilidad de productos, reglas familiares y, cada vez más, la exposición a marketing y a entornos escolares.
1) Precio y accesibilidad de los alimentos
El costo condiciona la lista de compras y, por lo tanto, lo que llega al plato. En hogares con presupuestos ajustados, el precio puede favorecer alimentos más calóricos y menos nutritivos, o reducir la diversidad. Una revisión sobre factores que influyen en las conductas alimentarias de niños señaló que los patrones de alimentación no dependen solo de preferencias: también del estatus socioeconómico, el entorno comunitario y la oferta disponible.
2) Tiempo real para comprar, cocinar y sentarse a comer
La falta de tiempo es una de las variables más subestimadas: determina si hay cocina “desde cero”, si se recurre a ultraprocesados o si se improvisa con lo que haya. En una revisión crítica sobre el sistema alimentario y la dieta infantil, se remarca que el entorno personal (hogar) y el externo (mercado, escuela, marketing) se combinan, y que el peso de cada factor cambia según la edad. En primera infancia, el hogar domina; luego, ganan terreno la escuela y el entorno comercial.
3) Disponibilidad en el hogar y “reglas” domésticas
Lo que está al alcance (fruta lavada, yogur, galletitas, gaseosas, snacks) tiene más probabilidad de consumirse. La misma revisión en PMC subraya que madres, padres o cuidadores actúan como “arquitectos” del entorno alimentario: compras, porciones, horarios, y exposición repetida a ciertos alimentos. Es un punto clave porque el niño no elige desde cero: elige dentro del marco que el hogar permite.
4) Cultura, normas familiares y contexto social
La comida no es solo nutrientes: es identidad, costumbre, formas de crianza y expectativas. Las tradiciones pueden favorecer platos caseros y horarios estructurados o, por el contrario, naturalizar el picoteo constante. La OMS, en su guía clásica sobre alimentación complementaria, insiste en prácticas como alimentación receptiva (responder señales de hambre y saciedad, sin forzar), higiene y progresión de texturas, pero también aclara que su implementación requiere adaptar mensajes a alimentos culturalmente aceptables y accesibles, además de identificar barreras locales.
5) Marketing, escuela y presión del entorno
A medida que crecen, los niños están más expuestos a comedores escolares, kioscos, cumpleaños, redes y publicidad. La revisión de Nutrition Research Reviews menciona el papel del marketing y del entorno escolar dentro del “entorno alimentario externo”, que puede empujar hacia productos de alta densidad calórica. No es un detalle: el marketing no solo influye en el niño, también incide sobre el adulto que compra, al instalar productos como “adecuados” o “necesarios”.
El punto central es que la alimentación infantil se construye en capas: intenciones (querer dar lo mejor), condiciones materiales (tiempo y dinero) y entorno (oferta, publicidad, escuela) tiran del mismo hilo. Por eso, la solución suele combinar acciones domésticas y de política pública: desde mejorar la disponibilidad de opciones saludables en casa hasta entornos escolares con mejores ofertas y reglas claras sobre marketing dirigido a niños.
Cuando el foco se corre de la culpa individual a los determinantes reales, aparece una pregunta más útil: qué palancas son modificables en cada familia y en cada comunidad (organización de compras, planificación simple, disponibilidad de “opciones puente”, acuerdos familiares) y cuáles requieren apoyo externo (precios, acceso, regulación, comedores).
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