“President Donald Trump’s political team is defending its push to redraw congressional districts mid-decade, a break from historical practice that provoked partisan retaliation, cost hundreds of millions of dollars and, so far, has left Republicans no better positioned to retain the House,” the Washington Post reports.
White House Defends Redistricting Effort
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