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| Sen. Joe Manchin (D-WV) is a fucking jackass. He won't back Biden's agenda. |
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The Democrats are fed up with Joe Manchin and Kyrsten Sinema. The West Virginia senator and Arizona senator have been nothing more than thorns in the side of President Joe Biden's back.
The House of Representatives have passed a resolution that recognizes the American people living in the District of Columbia have the right to declare statehood. It would authorize the commission for statehood and grant the federal district an opportunity to become the 51st State.
The District of Columbia has a population of 725,000 residents. It has more population than Wyoming and Vermont and yet the District of Columbia is not a state and it has a non-voting delegate who can't participate in a floor vote.
Rep. Elanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) is a delegate non-voting member of Congress. She along with five other members of the Congress are not allowed a floor vote. The District of Columbia allows residents to vote in the presidential election. The U.S. commonwealths of Puerto Rico and Northern Mariana Islands, and the U.S. territories of American Samoa, Guam and U.S. Virgin Islands can't vote in presidential elections.
Manchin officially sunk the notion of statehood and voting rights for U.S. territories.
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| The voters approved for Washington, DC to be a state. |
Manchin said Friday he would not back a House-passed bill making Washington, DC, the nation's 51st state, arguing that the process should be done through a constitutional amendment.
During a radio interview on WV MetroNews Talkline, a West Virginia news outlet, Manchin said that he wouldn't support Democrats unilaterally enacting statehood and said previous Justice Departments had already examined the issue.
"They all came to the same conclusion," he said. "If Congress wants to make DC a state, it should propose a constitutional amendment. It should propose a constitutional amendment and let the people of America vote."
When asked, Manchin reiterated said that he would not support a standalone statehood bill.
"I would tell all my friends ... if you go down that path because you want to be politically popular ... you know it's going to go to the Supreme Court," he said. "So why not do it the right way?"
Manchin's position severely imperils the legislation and underscores the tenuous position that Democrats have in the evenly divided Senate, which the party controls due to Vice President Kamala Harris's tiebreaking vote. Any Democratic defection can doom major legislation, especially with Manchin and Sinema opposed to eliminating the Senate filibuster, which creates a 60-vote threshold to break.
Late last month, the Democrat-controlled House passed the DC statehood bill, also known as H5 51, which would give the new state of Washington, Douglass Commonwealth, two senators, a full voting member of Congress, and a governor.
The vote was 216-208, with no Republicans supporting the legislation.
The legislation, which is strongly supported by President Joe Biden, would shrink the size of existing federal district to include landmarks such as the White House, US Capitol, and the National Mall.
GOP congressional leaders have decried the bill as a Democratic-led "power grab," despite past support for statehood from conservatives like former President Richard Nixon and the late Sen. Barry Goldwater of Arizona.
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| Sinema infamously voted down the $15 minimum wage. |
But even with united Republican opposition, the bill has run into additional turbulence among Senate Democrats.
The vote was 216-208, with no Republicans supporting the legislation.
The legislation, which is strongly supported by President Joe Biden, would shrink the size of existing federal district to include landmarks such as the White House, US Capitol, and the National Mall.
GOP congressional leaders have decried the bill as a Democratic-led "power grab," despite past support for statehood from conservatives like former President Richard Nixon and the late Sen. Barry Goldwater of Arizona.
But even with united Republican opposition, the bill has run into additional turbulence among Senate Democrats.
In the 2016 election, District voters backed statehood by a 86% to 14% margin.
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