President Donald Trump kept the option open to use FBI agents to track down the ‘missing’ Texas Democrats.

‘Well they may have to, they may have to,’ Trump told reporters Tuesday. 

On Tuesday, Texas Republican Senator John Cornyn reached out to FBI Director Kash Patel through a letter, seeking federal help to bring back state Democratic legislators.

The Democratic group left Texas on Sunday as a strategy to block their Republican counterparts from passing a GOP-favored redistricting plan.

This revised map may assist Trump and the Republican party in maintaining control of the U.S. House of Representatives during the 2026 midterm elections, which typically don’t favor the party currently in power.

‘Well, I think they’ve abandoned the state,’ Trump commented. ‘Nobody’s seen anything like it, even though they’ve done it twice before. And in a certain way, it almost looks like they’ve abandoned the state looks, very bad.’ 

Each Democratic lawmaker is being fined $500 a day for skipping the special legislative session, which was called by Republican Texas Gov. Greg Abbott. 

Abbott also ordered an investigation into whether the Democrats are violating bribery laws by using donations to cover the fines. 

President Donald Trump said the FBI ‘may have to’ track down Texas Democrats and bring them back to the state as they’re skipping a special legislative session Republicans are using to redistrict the state in the GOP’s favor 

Texas Democrats headed to blue states including Illinois. A number of Congressional Texas Democrats and the state-level Democrats who are ‘missing’ held a press conference on Monday 

Trump noted to reporters that Abbott also wants the Democrats to come back. 

‘I mean the governor of Texas is demanding they come back, a lot of people are demanding they come back,’ the president said at an executive order signing related to the 2028 summer Olympics in Los Angeles. 

‘You can’t just sit it out, you have to go back, you have to fight it out,’ the president continued. ‘That’s what elections are all about.’ 

He pushed back on the assertion that Texas Republicans were not playing fair – changing the makeup of Congressional districts in the middle of a decade. 

‘They would have done it anyway,’ the president said of Democrats. 

Redistricting is usually tied to the U.S. Census, which is conducted every 10 years. 

‘I watched this morning as Democrats are complaining and they’re complaining from states where they’ve done it, like in Illinois, like in Massachusetts,’ Trump said. 

Trump then segued to one of his favorite Democratic punching bags, Massachusetts Sen. Elizabeth Sanders, a prominent progressive.  

‘I watched this lunatic, Pocahontas, she’s a total lunatic,’ Trump said. 

Trump assigned Warren the controversial nickname after she was involved in a scandal about whether she should have identified as Native American.   

‘I don’t know what she’s on,’ he continued. ‘She’s all jumping up and down like I’ve never seen anything like it, talking about supporting the communist mayor.’

The president then briefly went into his hometown’s mayoral race, lampooning Democratic nominee Zohran Mamdani, who Trump calls a ‘communist.’ 

Trump then explained that Warren was also talking about the redistricting. 

‘But if you look at what’s going on with the redistricting, or whatever you want to call it, the Democrats have done it long before we started,’ Trump said. ‘They’ve done it all over the place. They did it in New York, they did it in a lot of different states.’