A bill to make the District of Columbia the country’s 51st state is picking up support from a key Democratic holdout in the Senate.
Sen. Jeanne Shaheen (D-N.H.) signed on as the 45th co-sponsor of the bill. It’s a boost from when Democrats reintroduced the bill earlier this year with 38 co-sponsors, which set a record at the time for the most support the bill had gotten in the Senate.
Sen. Tom Carper (D-Del.), who has been leading work on the bill in the Senate, touted Shaheen’s endorsement as a clear sign of momentum for the bill.
“We have a moral obligation to see this through for our fellow Americans reside in D.C., and I have every confidence that this legislation can get to the President’s desk this Congress,” Carper said in a statement.
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Actually, the moral obligation is to return the land to Virginia and Maryland. They originally ceded land to create a National Capitol City, not a brand new state. A new state will be a costly endeavor – a state infrastructure is not in place.
When will Staten Island secede from NYC? They deserve to be their own City.