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What Would Statehood for Washington, D.C. Mean?

On Wednesday night, Democrats clinched a narrow majority in the Senate, wresting control of both chambers of Congress for the first time since 2011. With an incoming Democratic president in Joe Biden, the party stands poised to reverse, or at least reckon with, the legislative agenda imposed by Donald Trump’s four years in office—barring the usual impediments of the filibuster and the Senate’s 50-