Texas state Rep. Ann Johnson, one of the Democrats who fled the state for Illinois, told CNN’s Pamela Brown that she viewed the quorum break as a “last tool” available to her and her colleagues to protest the Republican-backed redistricting effort.

New York Republicans blasted Gov. Kathy Hochul's pledges to push for a partisan redrawing of the state's congressional boundaries in response to Texas's redistricting fight.

Multiple Democratic governors, including Hochul, have threatened to redraw their states' maps to benefit Democrats, but most of those states have legal hurdles to doing so.