President Biden has said he will approve a Senate measure overriding changes to the criminal code in the district.
to override the D.C. law without his explicit approval, but he has now signaled he will sign the measure if it comes to his desk.
"Today is an unprecedented violation of America's core principle of self-governance and the latest painful reminder that until the nearly 700,000 residents of the District of Columbia have full statehood and autonomy, we will be seen and treated as a colony, even by those who purport to support us," D.C. Councilmember Charles Allen, a Democrat, said in a statement.
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