After the insurrection at the Capitol building, when District of Columbia Mayor Muriel Bowser's plea for aid from the National Guard was delayed because the Pentagon, not the mayor of D.C., oversees the District's force, calls for statehood for Washington, D.C., became urgent. If D.C. was a state, the request for National Guard help would have been considered by a governor, not the Pentagon acting on behalf of the commander in chief who had incited the violence.
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