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In the words of the late rapper, DMX: One more road to cross.
Washington, DC has a population of 723,000 residents. The District of Columbia is a federal district that sits on the banks of the Potomac River. It shares borders with Maryland and Virginia. The district is considered a territory. It has one non-voting delegate representing the district.
The delegate is Rep. Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC).
Washington, DC is governed by Muriel Bowser, the city mayor and somewhat de facto governor.
Congress oversees the overall jurisdiction of the district. It has three electoral votes in the Electoral College.
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| The District of Columbia will soon be a state. |
The House of Representatives have officially passed a resolution acknowledging the possibility of granting statehood to the District.
White nationalist Republicans are strongly opposed to the idea of granting statehood to the District of Columbia. They claim that if the Congress passes a legislation and President Joe Biden signs it, it will grant statehood to the area. It will become the Douglass Commonwealth and it will grant two new House members and two Senators.
The White House, The Supreme Court and the Capitol will be enclosed in a federal enclave.
The need to for a complete passage in the Senate will take 60 votes. The white nationalist Democrats will not concede to revoking the filibuster. Sen. Joe Manchin (D-WV) and Sen. Kyrsten Sinema (D-AZ) have continued to stand with white nationalists in the Republican Party. These two Democrats are not willing to revoke the filibuster.
The city of Washington, DC itself has population greater than Wyoming and Vermont. The U.S. Commonwealth of Puerto Rico which also signals its support for statehood has a population of 3.5 million residents. It is the largest populated U.S. territory in the country.
Rep. Mondaire Jones (D-NY), one of the progressive members of the House and openly gay Black lawmaker sparked anger with the white nationalists. He slammed the Republicans complaints about granting D.C. statehood as "racist trash."
"One Senate Republican, said that D.C. wouldn't be a 'well rounded working class state.' I had no ideas there were so many syllables in the word white," the freshman New Yorker said.
"One of my House Republican colleagues said that D.C. shouldn't be a state because the District doesn't have a landfill," he continued. "My goodness, with all the racist trash my colleagues have brought to this debate I can see why they're worried about having a place to put it."
He was referring to future "America First" caucus member Rep. Louie Gohmert (R-TX) and his remarks about Washington, DC have no landfill and being a crime-ridden city.
The passage of the statehood would give equality and fairness. It will give taxation with representation.
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) added that on top of that D.C.'s budget is larger than 12 states.
"Its people have fought in every American war since the Revolution," she added.
"D.C. residents have been fighting for voting rights and autonomy for 220 years, with a full 86 percent recently voting for statehood. And it is well past the time to grant them the rights that they have been fighting for and that they deserve," Pelosi said.
It will give America for the first time in over 60 years an opportunity to grow.
The calls to be united are growing. The U.S. territories of American Samoa, Guam, the U.S. Virgin Islands and the Northern Mariana Islands are demanding Congress grant them voting rights. They want to participate in voting in the 2024 presidential election.
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