Lt. Gov. Micah Beckwith appeared to confirm Dec. 11 that President Donald Trump's administration threatened to withhold federal funding to the state if it did not deliver on mid-decade redistricting.

But those claims contradict what some Republican lawmakers have publicly insisted in recent weeks — that they never felt uncomfortable with the level of pressure coming from the Trump administration.

Hours after the Indiana Senate soundly rejected a proposed congressional map favored by the White House, Beckwith responded to an X post mentioning a warning by Heritage Action, a pro-redistricting group, that "all federal funding will be stripped from the state" if Indiana does not redistrict.

The original post, by IndyStar columnist Jacob Stewart, quoted the Heritage Action post to say that

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