Calls for DC statehood reignited following Capitol insurrection: The fight for the 51st state

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explained

On January 6, as pro-Trump rioters broke through police barriers and breached the nation's Capitol building in Washington DC, the city's mayor could do little to stop the attack.

Unlike each state's governor, who serve as de facto commanders of National Guard forces in their domain, DC's Mayor Muriel Bowser had no power to send in military forces as the siege turned deadly that day.

Instead, Washington, DC's National Guard unit is commanded by the President of the United States - then Donald Trump, the man who hours earlier, had told the very crowd now storming the Capitol that "if you don't fight like hell you're not going to have a country anymore."

As the violence escalated, Bowser had to ask the Department of Defense, an executive branch of the federal government acting on behalf of the president, for permission to send in troops, and has since blamed the district's limitations and her inability to directly deploy the National Guard for the slow and muddled response on January 6.

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