Washington City Paper 51 Reasons to Support D.C. Statehood From missing out on $2–$3 billion in revenues annually to getting IDs turned down, 51 reasons D.C. should be a state. Success! You re on the list. Whoops! There was an error and we couldn t process your subscription. Please reload the page and try again. Processing…
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Washingtonians have many reasons to be mad as hell about their lack of autonomy former President
Donald Trump’s ability to deploy the city’s own National Guard to suppress a crowd of peaceful protesters, over the objections of Mayor
Muriel Bowser, is one that immediately comes to mind. But the fight for self-determination is not just motivated by the events of the past year, when the threat of Trump taking control of the D.C. police sometimes felt imminent.