McConnell Warns Against Adding States

Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) told Laura Ingraham in an interview that he did not support giving statehood to the District of Columbia or Puerto Rico, the Washington Post reports.

Said McConnell: “They plan to make the District of Columbia a state — that would give them two new Democratic senators — Puerto Rico a state, that would give them two more new Democratic senators, and as a former Supreme Court clerk yourself, you’ve surely noticed that they plan to expand the Supreme Court.”

He added: “This is full-bore socialism on the march in the House. And yeah, as long as I’m the majority leader of the Senate, none of that stuff is going anywhere.”