{"id":435241,"date":"2021-04-20T11:50:40","date_gmt":"2021-04-20T15:50:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=435241"},"modified":"2021-04-20T11:50:43","modified_gmt":"2021-04-20T15:50:43","slug":"biden-admin-announces-strong-support-for-dc-statehood-bill-says-51st-state-long-overdue","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/biden-admin-announces-strong-support-for-dc-statehood-bill-says-51st-state-long-overdue\/","title":{"rendered":"Biden Admin Announces \u2018Strong Support\u2019 For DC Statehood Bill, Says 51st State \u2018Long Overdue\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">28<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fbiden-admin-announces-strong-support-for-dc-statehood-bill-says-51st-state-long-overdue%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=435241&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><\/div>\n<p>President Joe Biden\u2019s administration announced \u201cstrong support\u201d for a Democratic push for D.C. statehood in a statement on Tuesday, putting its weight behind a long-time dream of the Democratic Party.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2019\/01\/07\/pelosi-backs-dc-statehood-bill\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">House Speaker Nancy Pelosi<\/a> is expected to bring the bill, H.R. 51, to a vote this week, where it will almost certainly pass. The bill faces much more robust opposition in the Senate, however. If signed into law, the bill would create \u201cWashington, Douglass Commonwealth\u201d as the 51st state while maintaining a separate federal district.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFor far too long, the more than 700,000 people of Washington, D.C. have been deprived of full representation in the U.S. Congress. &nbsp;This taxation without representation and denial of self-governance is an affront to the democratic values on which our Nation was founded,\u201d the administration argues, adding that the representation is \u201clong overdue.\u201d <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/01\/30\/dc-statehoood-constitutional-amendment-congress-pass-legislation\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">(RELATED: Does DC Statehood Require A Constitutional Amendment, Or Can Congress Pass It Via Legislation? It\u2019s Complicated)<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-partner=\"tweetdeck\" readability=\"9.135593220339\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Biden admin announces support for making Washington DC the nation\u2019s 51st state, creating the state of \u201cWashington, Douglass Commonwealth\u2026\u201d ie Frederick Douglass. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/DtdpQVLk4A\">pic.twitter.com\/DtdpQVLk4A<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Jim Acosta (@Acosta) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Acosta\/status\/1384518724816982017?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">April 20, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>\u201cEstablishing the State of Washington, Douglass Commonwealth as the 51st state will make our Union stronger and more just,\u201d the statement continued. \u201cThe Administration calls for the Congress to provide for a swift and orderly transition to statehood for the people of Washington, D.C.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The push to declare certain areas of D.C. a new state is <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/01\/30\/dc-statehoood-constitutional-amendment-congress-pass-legislation\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">fraught with constitutional questions<\/a> as well. The founders wrote into the constitution that the land ceded by Virginia and Maryland to become the U.S. Capital city should not exceed 10 square miles. Democrats argue that because the Constitution does not call for a minimum size, only a maximum limit, that certain areas of Washington could be turned into a state while maintaining a smaller federal district.<\/p>\n<p>Republicans argue that the push for statehood is a partisan attempt to gain two additional Democratic senators in Congress as well as a Democratic representative in the House. They also argue turning D.C. into a state via legislation in Congress is unconstitutional on multiple counts.<\/p>\n<p>First, they argue Maryland and Virginia ceded the land for the express purpose of creating the seat of American government, and that land cannot be retroactively turned into a state simply due to a lack of minimum size.<\/p>\n<p>Second, they point to the 23rd Amendment, which gave Electoral College votes to the District of Columbia to participate in presidential elections. H.R. 51\u2019s current language would shrink the federal district within the \u201cnew state\u201d to such a size that it would only have hundreds of actual residents, including the sitting president and his family, giving their votes vastly greater influence than anywhere else in the country. Those electoral votes were granted to D.C. via constitutional amendment, and they argue those votes couldn\u2019t be rescinded without a competing amendment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President Joe Biden\u2019s administration announced \u201cstrong support\u201d for a Democratic push for D.C. statehood in a statement on Tuesday, putting its weight behind a long-time dream of the Democratic Party.House &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2276290,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-435241","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/435241","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=435241"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/435241\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2276290"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=435241"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=435241"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=435241"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}