Senate Republicans will NOT….
End of story for now….
However, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) strongly opposes D.C. statehood and has said the legislation would not get a vote in the Senate as long as he’s in charge. President Trump says Republicans would be “very very stupid” to allow the District to become a state, since its overwhelmingly Democratic voter base would be granted the power to elect two new senators and a voting member of the House.
“There’s no doubt in my mind if this were a Republican city and a white city that this would have happened some time ago, and it should happen,” Hoyer said in an interview Monday. “I’ve decided that this is the time to fully engage the reality of the moment as to whether we are going to treat people with the respect and dignity and the rights they should have under the constitution of the United States of America.”
Hoyer dropped his long-standing opposition to D.C. statehood last year and promised to schedule a vote on the statehood bill before this summer…
The White population of DC has been growing of late and the city is undergoing a lot of housing gentrification.
Still, this is patently political move to arouse the base.
Both parties practice it .
Hoyer well knows it’s not going to pass the Senate.
I wonder how many House bills have piled up that McConnell won’t put up for a vote ?