It is, but as our guest Robinson Woodward-Burns noted, that has always been the case when adding states. Is adding these states a partisan political act? If Congress votes for them to become states, this would result in several new seats in the House and four in the Senate. Article IV of the Constitution says that adding a state requires the “consent of the Legislatures of the States concerned as well as of the Congress.” There is also a movement for Washington, D.C., which does have three electoral votes, to become a state. But whether it becomes a state or not depends entirely on the U.S. This November, Puerto Ricans voted for a referendum to make it the 51st state.
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