The House in a party-line vote on Thursday approved legislation to make Washington, D.C., the 51st state in the nation, sending the bill to the Senate.
It’s the second time the House has approved such legislation in two years, but the statehood bill, long a goal for the nation’s capital city, faces an uphill climb in a Senate evenly divided between the two parties.
Winning a vote in the Senate would likely require ending the filibuster that requires most legislation to clear a 60-vote hurdle. Even then, not all 50 Democrats in the Senate back making D.C. a state.
The vote was 216-208.
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This will never happen. More likely that it’ll be destroyed completely after what was found beneath the White House Hashem yerachem. Flooded streets in D.C. when there was no rain shows that President Trump’s “Draining of the Swamp” should now be taken literally.