The Biden administration stated on April 20 that it supports H.R. 51—the Washington, D.C. Admission Act—backing the congressional Democrats’ view of “no taxation without representation,” while Republicans see the legislation as an unconstitutional power grab to add two more Democratic senators. The administration stated that it has been too long for the more than 700,000 people of the District of Columbia who haven’t been allowed representation in Congress, while Republican members of Congress argue that the Founding Fathers didn’t intend for D.C. to be a state. “This taxation without representation and denial of self-governance is an affront to the democratic values on which our nation was founded,” the White House statement (pdf) reads. “Establishing the State of Washington, Douglass Commonwealth as the 51st state will make our Union stronger and more just.” At present, D.C. residents don’t have any voting representation in Congress, and the district is led by a …