Is Biden's The Beast snub a dig at D.C. trying to get statehood? trends now
President Joe Biden seems to be snubbing D.C. taxpayers by riding around in a motorcade that doesn't display Washington's 'Taxation Without Representation' protest slogan on its license plates.
On inauguration day, Biden rolled onto White House grounds in The Beast, the nickname for the presidential limo, which displayed new '46' license plates, for the 46th president, with the 'Taxation Without Representation' slogan displayed.
But it looks like those plates were just a temporary, symbolic gesture to the 672,000 residents of Washington, D.C., who pay federal taxes but have no voting members of Congress.
During his early trips in 2021, the Biden motorcade was back to using the same slogan-less license plate, with the same number, as former President Donald Trump, who was adamently against D.C. statehood. The plates remain the same today.
Axios first reported Wednesday on plate-gate, reporting that D.C's non-voting Delegate Eleanor Holmes Norton planned to write a letter to the administration indicating that one of the best ways Biden can speak up for D.C. autonomy 'is to put Taxation Without Representation on his license plate.'
INAUGURATION DAY 2021: President Joe Biden's motorcade arrived at the White House with license plates that said '46' - as he's the 46th president - and the D.C. protest slogan 'Taxation Without Representation'
THIS WEEK: President Joe Biden's motorcade has been using slogan-less plates since as easly as March 2021, suggesting the plates displayed on inauguration day were just a temporary, symbolic gesture to the taxpayers of Washington, D.C.
Biden supports D.C. statehood and a bill turning the District into a state twice passed the Democrat-led House during his term as president. The Senate, however, has never had enough Democrats to
