The Flash Briefing is a daily news update every weekday morning from Todd Jeffries. 

• The Trump-backed U.S. House candidate Ed Gallrein has defeated incumbent Thomas Massie in the Republican primary in Kentucky 
• Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche is facing questions from Congress for the first time since taking the reins at the Justice Department, defending a nearly $1.776 billion fund to pay allies of the president who believe they were targeted politically 

• A decline in public school enrollment is predicted to be bigger than expected there are now suggestions that Texas public schools could lose as many as 100-thousand students by the year 2030

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