D.C.’s emphatic embrace of woke policies has even Democrats on Hill rethinking support

District politicians are scrambling to shore up support among their Democratic Party allies on the Hill ahead of a likely vote next week in the Senate on an overhaul approved by the city council of the local criminal code — an overhaul that has been criticized by Republicans as “soft on crime.”

“I hate to be a cop-out for you guys all the time, but I do have to look at it. I just don’t know what it does yet,” Mr. Tester told CNN on Tuesday. “There is the issue of, you know, D.C. does what D.C. wants to do and let D.C. do what they do, but we do have some oversight.” D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser demurred Wednesday when asked whether she would support the idea of Mr. Biden vetoing the GOP’s disapproval measure.

Bipartisan support for the disapproval resolution took on added weight when one representative got firsthand experience with the crime in the District. Democrats, on the other hand, see a clear political benefit in making the District the 51st state. Over 75% of all registered voters in the federal city identify as Democrats.

“To imperil the chances of congressional Democrats in swing states [by] potentially forcing them to pick between voting to support the District or voting to support their own electoral chances on this, I think it’s just a really unfair position that we’ve put them in,” Mr. Goulet told The Times. “Even the president has to decide whether he’s willing to take a political hit to support D.C. on this effort or whether or not he’s going to just let it go.

Money for the fund would come from the District’s annual sales tax and from the tickets and fines doled out by the Department of Motor Vehicles. Letters sent last week by Mayor Bowser, the entire D.C. council and Attorney General Brian Schwalb all called on the Senate to reject the disapproval resolution on the grounds that it was silencing the voice of the District’s residents.

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