Can a presidential administration simply hand a state a seat in Congress at whim, taking it away from another?

Gov. Ron DeSantis says yes, and argues that the Donald Trump administration should do just that for Florida and Texas in the interest of fairness ahead of the 2026 Midterms.

“We are appealing to the Trump administration to award us at least one seat from the previous census. They would obviously have to take one away from another state,” DeSantis told radio host Mark Levin .

It’s not immediately clear which state or states would make the sacrifice, and it’s hard to imagine this happening without court challenges from the states losing representation.

Florida has a 20-8 Republican majority in Congress. To put that supermajority in perspective, there are a little more

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