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Washington, D.C., Could Become a State if Democrats Win in 2020
In a 232-180 vote on June 26, House Democrats passed a bill to make Washington, D.C., the nation’s 51st state.
Democrats have long wanted to make a state out of America’s capital, arguing that residents of the city deserve to have representatives in Congress.
It doesn’t hurt that the one representative and two senators D.C. would gain would be Democrats, given the city’s political demographics. This would particularly upset the current balance in the Senate, where Republicans hold a slim three-vote majority.
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