[Sgt_Schultze]

...and noted the local government would push back against any such plan.

“Local” government in DC exists by the grace of Congress, which has Constitutional authority over a federal district of 100 square miles. The next Republican Congress should disband and reestablish the DC government.

[2aProtectsTheRest]

It’s actually about 68 square miles, since the District of Columbia retrocession in 1846.