U.S. House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries traveled to Illinois Monday to urge lawmakers and African-American Congress members to support redrawing of the state's Congressional maps mid-decade.

"Donald Trump has unleashed this unprecedented gerrymandering on the country. We've never seen anything like this," Jeffries told a group of Chicago reporters.

New Congressional maps are typically redrawn every 10 years following the new censuses, so it is highly unusual to redistrict in the middle of a decade. The controversy over redrawing maps began in Texas earlier this year at the request of President Donald Trump, as his party tries to gain an advantage in the 2026 midterm elections.

Citing the Trump administration's moves to flip Democratic Congressional seats in Texas, Missouri, and other

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