The Biden administration said Tuesday 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 Democrat senators. The administration said it has been too long for the over 700,000 people of D.C. that have not been allowed representation in Congress, while GOP members of Congress argue that the Founding Fathers did not 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 do not have any voting representation in Congress and the district is led by a representative Council and …