If Democrats win the house should they give Washington DC, and Puerto Rico statehood?

Democrats are praising ICE and defending genocide. What in the world makes you think they’d do anything progressive, if they won a majority?

They should offer it and both DC and PR should get to vote on the issue.

I'm pretty sure PR has already voted on the issue more than once.
- True but I feel like if it's offered to DC it should also be offered again to PR to be fair and in case sentiment has shifted.

Yep.

They won't, but they should.

Chances Republicans lose the Senate -near 0. For Congress to pass anything it would have to go through both houses, so even if they somehow flipped the house (which may be unlikely with all the gerrymandering happening) it wouldn't be possible.
- I think they will lose both the Senate and the House because of import tarriffs, farms going out of business, and cutting medicare and snap. Small and medium size businesses that are heavily dependant on imports will be strained under these tariffs.

I am going to pick a bone about Puerto Rico. Why do some Americans would like to try to give statehood to Puerto Rico? Literally half of Puerto Ricans can't decide on whether they want to be fully independent, or completely integrate with the US! Let the Puerto Ricans decisively settle it themselves, before mainland Americans debate whether they should grant the island statehood.

they should. they wont.

Yes. I’d go a step further and give native Americans representation similar to statehood too.

The U.S. government recognizes 574 American Indian tribes and Alaska Native entities. Give each of them two senators, one representative, and three electoral votes, and suddenly the white man's government becomes a minority adjunct to the new native government. I'd say let's give it a try and see how it goes!

Yes but they won't do it.

It’s not just the House, the Senate and the President also need to be on board. The House passing a resolution would at least illustrate who’s holding things up, though.

The Senate needs to be board, but not the president. The president doesn't have veto power as it is not a bill. Ratification of a state is just Congress. (And there is no way the Republicans will lose both sides of Congress)

Doesn't Puerto Rico not want statehood?

Yeah. Puerto Rico is going through a period of discovering itself after the first Trump presidency. Maria fucked the island, Biden did nothing different than Trump (who at least gave out paper towels), and PR is still suffering from rolling power outages. Luma, the power company, is owned by a company in Texas and has the money to fix it but hasn't after almost a decade.
PR wants to be in charge of its own future. A power company that extracts money but makes no changes is a colonial enterprise. So much of Puerto Rico is being peeled off for moneyed interests that it makes sense they want little to do with America.
- Trump (who at least gave out paper towels
  You didn't seriously just say that.

It’ll mess up the flag (51 or 52 stars don’t go into a regular grid), so they’ll need a one-in-one-out policy. A start could be merging the Dakotas and Carolinas.

I suggest we kick out Florida or Texas. Or both.
- Having 2 festering heeps of authoritarianism next to your country is less than ideal. A strong handed attempt to reform them would be better, like an external board to determine their districts (though it'd require an amendment to the constitution)
I think that a 51 star flag could look pretty cool.
- hmm, I think they all look like ass

Statehood or independence for Puerto Rico and while we're at it the Pacific islands and any other colonial possessions.

DC can be rolled into Virginia just fine as the compromise.

gop would never agree to it in the senate. Also old guard DNC doesnt seem keen on giving statehood as would the gop, it will just include too many problems for them

At the very very least they should at least have a single voting representative for fucks sake.

The United States is a fascist country.

Wondering what the minority party would do if it regained power is not a relevant use of time imo.

Two words: Douglass Commonwealth