NEW: The House passes Washington D.C. statehood bill 232-180, marking the first time a chamber of Congress has passed the bill; now heads to the Senate, where it faces insurmountable opposition from GOP leaders.
to clear Lafayette Square near the White House of peaceful protesters so that President Donald Trump could trumpet his law and order credentials in a photo op.
Trump said last month that “D.C. will never be a state” because it would likely mean two more Democratic senators. “No, thank you. That’ll never happen,” he said. “We are the only free country in the world, from all our research, that doesn’t have a voting member of their parliament in their country. We call our parliament ‘Congress,'” Hoyer said at a news conference Thursday.
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