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Dormill and Stiura wrote:

Or, and hear me out, make the residential areas of DC a state and reduce the federal district to the existing federal buildings.

This is the plan

Wellsia wrote:

But then by the original agreement those territories belong to Maryland, just like Alexandria returned to Virginia when it was removed from DC.

Maryland doesn't want them. Which as the case then they should be allowed to be their own state. Do you remember what the US was founded on? "No taxation without representation." That is the case for this, and also why Puerto Rico should be stated as well. I'd say Guam too but they don't actually want to be a state so fair enough.