JUST IN: The House of Representatives passes legislation that would grant statehood to the District of Columbia.
indicated that he would veto the legislation if it reached the Oval Office, saying that the district"will never be a state."
"The constitutional framers, the Federalist Papers, nobody thought that states would be admitted on the basis of their politics, rather they would be admitted on the basic premise of their citizenship as Americans, and to consider other non-germane items in casting your vote is un-American," he added.
Hoyer also recently said that leaders decided to put the measure on the floor after the district was treated as a territory in the CARES Act, which provided relief from the COVID-19 pandemic, as well as after federal troops were deployed to crack down on protests in the wake of George Floyd’s killing. The dual crises facing the nation were compounded in the nation’s capital where people of color comprise the majority of the population.
Police disperse protesters near the White House on June 1, 2020 as demonstrations against George Floyd's death continued."The difference between Washington state, where the President can tweet about wanting to send in troops, and Washington, D.C., where he can just ship them in, is that we don’t have a governor because we’re not a state," Strauss said.
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