A group of Republican Indiana state lawmakers visited the White House on Tuesday in a previously scheduled meeting with the Trump administration. It’s unknown whether discussions centered around redistricting. President Donald Trump has been pushing Republican-controlled states such as Texas, Florida and now Indiana to carve out more pro-GOP congressional districts. “They were not even scheduled to meet with President Trump, just all the department heads that will discuss what each does and give them contact info,” said Indiana state Rep. Julie Olthoff, a Republican from Crown Point in Northwest Indiana. “The point of the meeting in DC is not redistricting and was set up months ago before the discussion began.” Olthoff, the assistant majority whip in the Indiana House of Representatives, did not attend the meeting. She said she did not go because she had previously attended a similar meeting when former Vice President Mike Pence, who was from Indiana, invited Republican state legislators. Olthoff isn’t saying too much about her position on whether the state should redistrict mid-term. She said a number of things would need to be taken into consideration. She said the Princeton Gerrymandering Project gave Indiana an “A” for how it has drawn its congressional maps. Illinois received an “F” in the same report. Indiana state Sen. Ed Charbonneau, a Republican from Valparaiso, would only say, “We are working our way through the issue.” Charbonneau didn’t go to Washington for Tuesday’s meetings. Republicans, who hold supermajorities in both the Indiana House and Senate and control the governor’s office, won’t say much about which lawmakers visited the White House, but their Democratic counterparts are calling them out. “It’s a slap in the face to our Hoosiers, particularly those in the areas that are potentially going to be affected,” said Indiana state Sen. Rodney Pol Jr., a Democrat from Chesterton in Northwest Indiana. “This is an attempt to break up what is culturally a region. Northwest Indiana is the region.” As it currently stands, Republicans hold seven of Indiana’s nine congressional seats. District 1, which comprises Lake, Porter and northwestern portions of La Porte counties in Northwest Indiana, historically leans Democratic. In fact, Democrats have held the seat for nearly a century, overseeing the industrial cities of Gary, Hammond, East Chicago, Portage and Michigan City. But U.S. Rep. Frank Mrvan, a Democrat, fought off a close race to win the seat last year. The first district could be considered vulnerable if it is redistricted to dilute the vote of mostly Black and Latino Democrats in Gary and East Chicago. “Legislators from outside of the region are looking to carve it up at the whim of a president who appears very weak at this point. We’ve never seen anything like this before. We’re going to do mid-decade redistricting because the president doesn’t want to face his voters. I think that that is very problematic,” Pol said. “I think that demonstrates that he knows that his policies are not working and that people are still not happy despite all of his promises.” Pol said he hopes his Republican counterparts do not cave to pressure from the president. “They’ve specifically stated these maps are perfect,” Pol said. “I implore them to stand on their own principles, stand on their own previous work that these maps were perfectly fine.” Some Indiana Democratic state lawmakers showed up at Indianapolis International Airport early Tuesday morning to troll their Republican counterparts with signs that read, “People over Party,” “Hoosiers Before D.C.,” and “Sayonara Sellouts.” Michael Puente is a reporter and weekend anchor at WBEZ. Reach him at mpuente@wbez.org.