DC statehood expand to include VA & MD suburbs

[Anonymous]

Should DC absorb suburbs when it becomes a state? Seems like the district is having trouble enforcing residency requirements for agency heads and since most of the city workforce aka commuters lives in the suburbs?

[Anonymous]

And leave rural VA and MD to be their own states? No thanks.

More people live in DC than live in WY, but nobody is suggesting WY get absorbed.

[Anonymous]

If you want to Give DC back the original footprint that is fine.

Other than that - I don't get it

[Anonymous]

By what mechanism or authority or leverage would DC annex parts of Md and Va?

You say should like it’s even an option.

[Anonymous]

Even trade. Make the whole area inside the Beltway a state (Maryland would still be blue). In exchange, merge the Dakotas and Wyoming with Montana.

[Anonymous]

Also I favor statehood for dc but you say “when”. It’s an “if”.

[Anonymous]

Ugh, no. There's a million good reasons I don't want to be governed by DC politicians.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Should DC absorb suburbs when it becomes a state? Seems like the district is having trouble enforcing residency requirements for agency heads and since most of the city workforce aka commuters lives in the suburbs?

Thanks for the laugh.

While DC becoming a state MIGHT happen in the distant future, it would never be able to add to its current footprint.

[Anonymous]

No thank you. Arlington and Alexandria do not want to be part of any DC state government.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Should DC absorb suburbs when it becomes a state? Seems like the district is having trouble enforcing residency requirements for agency heads and since most of the city workforce aka commuters lives in the suburbs?

Is your premise that DC should absorb the suburbs because the people running DC don't want to live there?

[Anonymous]

Funny, that government you deride has a AAA bond rating and a $7B rainy day fund that is the envy if almost every governor in the union.

[Anonymous]

DC is never going to be a State. Never.

[Anonymous]

D.C. won't become a state until Democrats control the White House, the House and have a filibuster proof majority in the Senate, and maybe not even then. Basically, it's never going to happen, not in our lifetimes.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:D.C. won't become a state until Democrats control the White House, the House and have a filibuster proof majority in the Senate, and maybe not even then. Basically, it's never going to happen, not in our lifetimes.

This. The USA as we know it might be done before DC becomes a state.

The democrats might never have 60 senators.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:If you want to Give DC back the original footprint that is fine.

Other than that - I don't get it

Yes, Maryland already gave up its share (including our fine port city of Georgetown, Maryland). Maybe Virginia would honor its share of bargain, though?