Statehood

DC Mayor Muriel Bowser has a monumental task, unlike anything the nation has seen since Lincoln’s first inauguration in 1861.
/ January 19, 2021
As promoters of making Puerto Rico a US state complain about equality at the federal level, they’re eroding civil and human rights at home.
The Democratic-controlled House approved a bill to make the District of Columbia the 51st state and allowing full voting rights to its 700,000 residents.
Congresswoman Stacey E. Plaskett (D-Virgin Islands) says now is the time to make Americans in the US territories full citizens under the law.