"And the population of Puerto Rico is bigger than 6 of these states COMBINED." PR needs statehood.

[Effete Snob]

34. The US Constitution Expressly Requires "consent of Congress"

There is no treaty, statute, or regulation, which can negate an express requirement of the Constitution.

https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/the-great-divide/

Although the provisions of the Texas Annexation document allowing for the creation of four additional states are popularly regarded as a unique curiosity today, they were largely superfluous. Article IV, Section 3 of the U.S. Constitution already specifically provided for the formation of new states through the junction or division of existing states:

New states may be admitted by the Congress into this union; but no new states shall be formed or erected within the jurisdiction of any other state; nor any state be formed by the junction of two or more states, or parts of states, without the consent of the legislatures of the states concerned as well as of the Congress.

While some may have considered the loss of such things as the right to own slaves or to secede from the union to have been unfortunate results of the readmission of Texas to the Union, one does not usually find them voting Democratic since the 1960's.