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The Blast - June 9, 2025 [1]

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Date: 2025-06 

“There’s a lot we don't know,” Sessions said. “We don’t know how much the governor would want to do or not do. We don’t know whether the governor would include other matters in that or whether it would just be congressional.”

U.S. Rep. Pete Sessions , R-Waco, confirmed to Tribune fellow Owen Dahlkamp and other reporters the subject of the meeting. That verified a report this evening from The New York Times , which lent credence to a rumor that’s been floated around Austin.

Texas’ congressional Republicans just met on Capitol Hill to discuss a push by the White House for the state to do a mid-decade redistricting.

MILLER SYMPATHETIC TO AT-RISK THC BUSINESSES

The Blast ran into Texas Agriculture Commissioner Sid Miller at lunch today. Like everyone else in Texas, Miller isn’t sure what Gov. Greg Abbott will do with the THC ban.

The governor is weighing the bill, like he does every other one. Although the Legislature passed Senate Bill 3 at the insistence of Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick and others, Abbott is getting a lot of pressure from businesses — and voters — to veto the bill.

Miller’s view is that the bill would bring Texas back to where things were before 2019, with the medical THC program expanding under House Bill 46 to become what lawmakers had intended.

Still, the commissioner said he feels bad for the 6,000 or so businesses that will go under thanks to the ban.

It’s not a new line for Miller and sympathetic electeds. Last summer, Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis vetoed a similar bill, saying it would “impose debilitating regulatory burdens on small businesses.”

Miller waffled a bit on THC before the session, when Patrick first took aim at the THC market and its legal loophole. In December, Miller posted on social media that “it’s time to support the will of Texans,” citing “the polls.” But less than a month later, the commissioner said he would not come out against Patrick’s effort.

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