President Joe Biden gave a full endorsement Tuesday of Washington, D.C.’s campaign for statehood by supporting a House proposal to make it the 51st state.
House Resolution 51 has been approved in committee and is awaiting a full floor vote.
“For far too long, the more than 700,000 people of Washington, D.C., have been deprived of full representation in the U.S. Congress,” Biden’s White House budget office said in a statement.
“This taxation without representation and denial of self-governance is an affront to the democratic values on which our nation was founded.”
“H.R. 51 rights this wrong by making Washington, D.C., a state and providing its residents with long-overdue full representation in Congress, while maintaining a federal district that will continue to serve as our nation’s seat of government,” it added.
A similar D.C. statehood bill was approved for the first time by the Democratic-held House last year, but it was never picked up by the Republican-controlled Senate.
The new bill has added support, which has partly come from a wide movement for racial and social equality that followed the death of George Floyd a year ago.
“Washington, D.C. has a robust economy, a rich culture, and a diverse population of Americans from all walks of life who are entitled to full and equal participation in our democracy,” the budget office said. “The administration calls for the Congress to provide for a swift and orderly transition to statehood for the people of Washington, D.C.”
If passed in the House, the proposal would head to the Senate, where Democrats hold a one-vote majority.
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This traitorous Socialist Democrat party’s puppet president Betrayal Biden is a disgrace to our country.
The Dishonorable, Democrat Party in the U.S. game plan is to lie, cheat and steal elections
in order to control the American people
and bring American commerce and economy to its knees.
Then access power and retain it by any means available –
no matter the costs to the people, the government or the nation.
What Constitution, there is no stinkin’ Constitution say the Commiecrats. What has Eleanor Holmes Norton been doing for the past 50-60 years besides drawing a Govt paycheck on behalf of the denizens of DC? She is their representation and she is black and female. Will gender reassignment surgery give her more chops? It is only to gain two more reliably Democrat votes in the Senate and then maybe the powers behind the scenes will release the pliers from Biden’s testicles – if he still has them.
These days, that certainly SEEMS to be what they are saying./ TO hell with the constitution, and their oath to uphold it.
BUT WHO exactly will hold them to account for it?
Certainly not the cowards in the GOP.
Certainly not the traitors in the media
certainly not the dept of injustice..
LIAR in chief. A typical democrat liar who would say anything to obtain power but NOT now how to lead. Do not vote for career politicians, especially those who are clueless of any morality, or have NO leadership qualities. He makes decisions by delegating those decisions to polls and his useless staff and advisors.
Get ready for the one party system of communism. The reeducation camps and concentration camps are coming for all of us Conservatives.
Now say your ten Hail bidens, or be sent to da gulags!
The Constitution deliberately created a governing zone that couldn’t be a state, in order to prevent conflicts of interest.
Why don’t they just go ahead and repeal the whole Constitution while they’re about it? Of course, that would repeal the 13th Amendment as well.
The way they are going, they might as well repeal it all.
Time to start splitting up the states and separating the red OCEANS from those blue islands of communism. Those extra hundreds of Republican senators should be more than enough to counter those bogus DC felons.
I agree. Split Washington into 2 states (seattlistan and the rest), do the same for oregon, ca, Mi, Il, etc. AND SEE HOW SWIFTLY the reigns shift to conservatives..
in order to give the residents a way to be represented, it had been suggested that they could vote in any state from which DC was carved from. Makes sense without adding senators
How’s about they MOVE to those states then!