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   https://nypost.com/2021/04/30/joe-manchin-opposes-dc-statehood-bill-in-   
   blow-to-dem-push-for-more-senate-seats/   
      
   West Virginia Democratic Sen. Joe Manchin on Friday said that he opposes a   
   bill to make Washington, DC, the 51st state — effectively killing a push   
   by fellow Democrats that would all but guarantee them two more seats in   
   the Senate.   
      
   Manchin said that he believes a constitutional amendment is required,   
   rather than a House-passed bill that would shrink the federal district and   
   admit the remainder of DC as a new state.   
      
   A constitutional amendment won’t happen. It would require two-thirds   
   support in each chamber of Congress and ratification in three-fourths of   
   states.   
      
   Manchin told local radio host Hoppy Kercheval of MetroNews that Democrats   
   historically believed a constitutional amendment was needed, He said   
   Attorney General Bobby Kennedy and the Carter administration both held   
   that view.   
      
   “They all came to the same conclusion: If Congress wants to make DC a   
   state, it should propose a constitutional amendment. It should propose a   
   constitutional amendment and let the people of America vote,” Manchin   
   said.   
      
   DC statehood would result in two new senators and one new voting member of   
   the House. All likely would be Democrats, given President Biden took more   
   than 92 percent of the city’s vote last year.   
      
   House Democrats passed a DC statehood bill for the first time last year   
   along party lines — and did so again this month. The last time DC   
   statehood had received a House vote, in 1993, it failed with just one   
   Republican vote and almost half of Democrats opposed.   
      
   In the intervening years, local Democrats pushed into party orthodoxy a   
   proposal to shrink the federal district described in the Constitution to   
   only include the White House, the US Capitol and federal buildings   
   flanking the National Mall.   
      
   Although the idea has won near universal backing among Democrats, it has   
   not swayed centrist Republicans in the Senate, where Democrats hold a bare   
   50-50 majority with Vice President Kamala Harris breaking ties in their   
   favor. Typical swing-voting Sens. Mitt Romney (R-Utah) and Lisa Murkowski   
   (R-Alaska) indicated they didn’t support the bill.   
      
   Manchin’s opposition to the bill greatly reduces the likelihood that   
   Democrats would abolish the 60-vote procedural filibuster that requires a   
   supermajority to pass most bills in the Senate.   
      
   Conservative opponents of DC statehood have long advocated that DC be   
   given back to Maryland if residents want voting representation in Congress   
   and have put forward an array of arguments premised on the views of the   
   Founding Fathers.   
      
   But former President Donald Trump forged new ground last year by telling   
   The Post — in his first remarks on DC statehood as president — that   
   Republicans must oppose the idea because it would benefit Democrats.   
      
   “DC will never be a state,” Trump told The Post. “You mean District of   
   Columbia, a state? Why? So we can have two more Democratic — Democrat   
   senators and five more congressmen? No thank you. That’ll never happen.”   
      
   Trump added: “They want to do that so they pick up two automatic Democrat   
   — you know it’s 100 percent Democrat, basically — so why would the   
   Republicans ever do that? That’ll never happen unless we have some very,   
   very stupid Republicans around that I don’t think you do. You understand   
   that, right?”   
      
   Republican politicians have embraced that previously unspoken truth.   
      
   Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) said at his Republican   
   National Convention speech last year that DC statehood must be opposed to   
   prevent Democratic legislation from passing.   
      
   “They want to tell you what kind of car you can drive. What sources of   
   information are credible. And even how many hamburgers you can eat,” he   
   said. “And they want to codify all this by making the swamp itself,   
   Washington, D.C., America’s 51st state. With two more liberal senators, we   
   cannot undo the damage they’ve done.”   
      
      
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