The Biden administration stated on April 20 that it supports H.R. 51—the Washington, D.C. Admission Act—backing the congressional Democrats’ view of “no taxation without representation,” while Republicans see the legislation as an unconstitutional power grab to add two more Democratic senators.
The administration stated that it has been too long for the more than 700,000 people of the District of Columbia who haven’t been allowed representation in Congress, while Republican members of Congress argue that the Founding Fathers didn’t intend for D.C. to be a state.
