President Donald Trump is pushing a handful of states to redraw their congressional maps to give more seats to Republicans in the U.S. House.

Trump told reporters on Tuesday that there are five states where Republicans could gain seats through a redrawing of their respective congressional maps. He only named one, however: Texas, where the president said that Republicans could pick up five seats.

“Just a very simple redrawing, we pick up five seats. We have a couple of other states where we’ll pick up seats also,” Trump told reporters earlier Tuesday.

Later, Trump expanded his state count to five, saying that three states could give Republicans one seat each and a fourth could give Republicans two to three next Congress.

“There’s about four [states other than Texas]. I’ll let you figure that one out, but we have about four of them. In three cases it’s one [seat], and in one case it’s two or three,” Trump told reporters. “And Texas would be 5.”

The president said that in a case where California redistricted to create more Democratic-leaning districts, his administration would sue.

“We’ll fight them. You know, they’re so corrupt in California,” the president said when asked about California’s potential to redistrict. “You never know what’s going to happen, but we’ve done pretty well in the courts in California, as you see. We’re batting about 1,000, ultimately. We start off a little slow, and then we get a lot of hits.”

Trump and the Department of Justice have reportedly pushed Texas Governor Greg Abbott to lead redistricting in the Lone Star State to help Republicans maintain control of the House after the 2026 midterm elections. Abbott has instructed the state legislature to redraw the congressional map during a summer session.

Texas currently has 38 House seats. Twenty-five of those are currently held by Republicans. While redistricting could make some Democrat-held seats more favorable to Republicans, it could also make some GOP-held seats more competitive.

One of the other states that the White House is targeting to strengthen Republicans’ hand going into 2026 could be Ohio, which is required by law to redistrict ahead of the coming midterm elections.

National Democratic leaders are pushing Texas Democrats to stage a walkout to deny the legislature from passing a redistricted map that could create more favorable conditions for the GOP. In order for the Texas House to pass legislation, at least 100 members of the 150-member body must be present. Democrats could thwart Republicans if 51 of their 62-member coalition walked out.

The White House is conducting a review of potentially more than one million documents approved through the autopen process under former President Joe Biden.

The White House Counsel’s Office is leading an investigation into the former president and his staff’s use of the autopen. The White House has already assembled tens of thousands of documents from Biden’s term turned over by the National Archives for review, according to Fox News.

“Joe Biden was the worst, most incompetent, and senile president in our country’s history,” Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt told Fox News. “It has been widely reported that Joe Biden handed the power of the presidency to an autopen controlled by unelected leftist staffers, who were allowed to make terrible decisions that destroyed our country.”

“The Trump White House is committed to finding the answers to the many outstanding questions the American people still have about how business in the Biden White House was conducted,” she said.

White House officials expect to review potentially more than one million documents from the Biden administration that were approved via autopen. One official said that the review is aimed at providing transparency to the American people about Biden’s health and his understanding of the substantial number of documents that bear the former president’s signature.

“What did the former president direct, versus what he did not,” an official said, according to Fox News. “The only time a legitimate use of the autopen should happen is if the president said he wanted something done, or if he was asked for his approval.”

Biden was recently revealed to have not specifically approved thousands of prisoners and convicts that he granted pardons and clemency to in his final days in office. The former president told The New York Times in an interview published on Sunday that he directed his staff to prepare a list of convicts that fell under certain criteria, such as those who were convicted of low-level drug offenses.

After compiling the list, White House staff used the autopen to grant relief to thousands of convicts in the president’s name. Staff did not run the final list past Biden before granting presidential relief.

Biden asserted to the Times that he “made every decision” despite the loosely supervised autopen process. The former president defended the use of the autopen in his final days in office because “we’re talking about a whole lot of people” who were given amnesty.

The White House review is running parallel to two other investigations into Biden’s autopen run by the House Oversight Committee and the Department of Justice. The White House Counsel’s Office is coordinating with the Justice Department in the review.