#shorts On 3/3/2023, a reporter asked White House Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre, “Just following up on Colleen’s question on the D.C. crime bill. The House Democrats who are expressing anger and frustration, they are in part saying that they wish they had known sooner what the President’s position would be. As you know, a whole bunch of House Democrats already voted against the bill. Why didn’t the White House make this position clear before that vote had taken place in the House?

MS. JEAN-PIERRE: So, look, when we put out the SAP — I think it was around the State of the Union; I think that’s when the SAP came out — we were very clear on where — in what — where the President was, which is making sure that he continues his commitment to D.C. statehood … even earlier this week, many of you were asking me — I think your colleague was asking me which direction the President was going to go. And he never made that clear in that SAP. And I think as it was becoming — we always let — we always let the process in Congress go through — right? — whatever mechanism they take, however it moves forward. So we never — we’re always very clear and careful about that. But as it now looks like it was going to come to his desk, we wanted to communicate where we were going to go. We wanted to communicate how the President was going to move forward with — with this particular bill. And we did. And we — we laid that out.

other clips of this published longer video is here: https://youtu.be/fZmjnlkn9gc
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