Fox News correspondent Chad Pergram has the latest from Washington on America Reports
A panel of House Democrats advanced legislation Wednesday to make Washington, D.C., the 51st state in the union after hourslong debate over the constitutionality of the plan and the political ramifications of a newly minted blue state.
The House Oversight Committee voted 25-19 in
a party-line vote to support
statehood and to send the bill to a full vote of the House next week. No Republican backed the measure.
Backed by D.C. residents, Mayor Muriel Bowser and D.C. Delegate Eleanor Holmes Norton, supporters of statehood argued it s long overdue to end the taxation of Washingtonians without federal government representation.
New York House Democrats press for repeal of SALT deduction cap
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Internal Pentagon document confirms military standdown during January 6 coup attempt
Over the weekend the Associated Press (AP) revealed the contents of an internal Pentagon report detailing a series of calls made between lawmakers and the Department of Defense during the attack on Congress on January 6. The report demonstrates that Trump-appointed officials within the Pentagon purposefully forestalled the deployment of military forces for hours even as lawmakers and Vice President Mike Pence pleaded for help while fascist-led mobs hunted and called for their deaths inside the Capitol.
The report states that at 4:08 p.m. on January 6, over two hours after windows at the Capitol were breached by members of the fascist Proud Boys, Pence called acting Secretary of Defense Christopher Miller and demanded he “clear the Capitol.”