#shorts On 3/6/2023, a reporter asked White House Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre, “You know, advocates of D.C. statehood say that what has happened here in this episode is the effort has been set back significantly, that essentially what the President has done is he’s given juice to opponents of statehood. And statehood opponents say that this episode is proving them right, that the D.C. government should not be self-governing without Congress’s involvement.

KJP: Well, we don’t dis- — we — we disagree. Right? We believe D.C. should be a statehood. I mean, we’ve been very clear. The President has been very clear. Again, D.C. is not a state. It’s not a city. The reason why this bill was coming before the President is because that is the case. Right? It’s not a state. It’s not a city. So, doesn’t mean that it stops our support for their statehood.

Reporter: Thanks, Karine. Just to circle back on something you said earlier about D.C., you said D.C. — “It’s not a state, it’s not a city.” What did you mean by that?

KJP: Meaning that — what I’m trying to say is we — it’s not a — it’s not a statehood …

other clips of this published longer video is here: https://youtu.be/KwKoFHReBqM
KJP Says Washington, D.C. Is “Not a State, not a City”