For decades, Democrat politicians begged their voters to give them control of the White House, Senate and House so that they could make the District of Columbia a state. Well, Democrats controlled all three in 2021 and 2022 without offering even one piece of legislation to make D.C. a state? What happened?
D.C. is not a state because the U.S. Constitution governs the status of the District, not Congress or the president. For Democrats to make D.C. a state, a constitutional amendment would have to be passed...