And another Thursday addition of a pie hole picture moment.....and #Moscow Mitch has an answer......

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White House threatens to veto DC statehood bill to stop its 'voting power'


By Emily Singer -June 25, 2020 11:11 AM

The White House does not think the District of Columbia should have the same voting power as a small, conservative state like Wyoming.

The House on Thursday is slated to pass a bill that would make the District of Columbia a state, a move that would give the more than 700,000 residents of the city representation in Congress.

However, a day before the historic vote, the Trump administration threatened to veto the legislation if it ever made it to Donald Trump's desk — saying it's unfair that the city would have "the same voting power in the Electoral College as the smallest state in the country," according to a statement given to Fox News.

Of course, the District of Columbia's population of 720,687 is more than two U.S. states, according to Census data: Vermont (628,061) and Wyoming (567,025).

Trump has said previously that the real reason he doesn't want Washington, D.C., to become a state is because it would give Democrats more lawmakers in both the House and Senate.

Published with permission of The American Independent Foundation.

https://americanindependent.com/washington-dc-statehood-bill-veto-threat-donald-trump-white-house/


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In an interview with Fox News host Laura Ingraham, McConnell said giving the nearly three-quarters of a million residents of the District of Columbia representation in Congress is "full-bore socialism."

"As long as I'm the majority leader of the Senate, none of that stuff is going anywhere," McConnell told Ingraham in June 2019 of statehood for Washington, D.C., and Puerto Rico.

McConnell did not explain how giving democratic representation in Congress to people who live in the United States and pay federal taxes is "socialism."

FUCK YOU #Moscow Mitch.....................I dislike libertarians and that fucking fascist business mantra and packing the courts with federalist society lackeys that hate the Constitution............

[Guilded Lilly]

1. To misquote Shakespeare "Out, out, damn Fucks"