About 694,000 people live in Washington, D.C., more than in Wyoming or Vermont. Their tax returns carry the highest average federal income tax in the country, and they serve in the military. They do not have a single voting member of Congress.
In 2025 that gap stopped being abstract. The president took control of the city's police, and National Guard troops from eight states began patrolling its streets, under orders since extended through 2026. In February 2026, Congress overturned a tax law the city's elected council had passed. D.C. residents had no senator to call about any of it.
The House has passed the Washington, D.C. Admission Act twice, in 2020 and 2021. It would make the residential District a state and keep a small federal core around the Capitol and the White House. Congress can admit a state by simple majority, the way it admitted 37 others. Some oppose it because D.C. would likely elect Democrats, but the right to vote for your own senators should not depend on how you are expected to vote.
Please cosponsor and support the Washington, D.C. Admission Act, S. 51 and H.R. 51, and give D.C.'s taxpaying citizens the vote in Congress every other American has.
