Texas House Speaker Dustin Burrows said Thursday that creating a private-school voucher program in Texas is “the defining issue” of the legislative session, reassuring a crowd of conservative supporters gathered in Austin that their long wait for school choice was over.

House Bills 2 and 3 are being dubbed the Texas Two Step. Trump’s endorsement helped propel Ron DeSantis in the 2018 Republican gubernatorial primary. The "Zero Day" star and "Late Show" host Stephen Colbert let a haunting silence hang in the air for several seconds.

Like the Texas Senate, the House calls for a cash incentive paid from taxes for families who want to switch their kids from public to private school. But unlike the Senate, the House tied the amount of that incentive to public school funding.