In 2020, the Committee approved a resolution without a hearing, just at the height of the pandemic.

Status Debate back to Decolonization Committee table

The committee would approve a new resolution recognizing Puerto Rico’s right to self-determination and independence

El Capitolio de Estados Unidos en Washington.

Parity in Medicaid, SSI, and nutrition assistance is on the hands of five congressional committees

President Joe Biden supports Puerto Rico’s full access to those programs, but any proposal on that must emerge from the U.S. House and Senate.

According to Galva, to keep operating the Health Reform as it is today, PRHIA needs the approval of a minimum budget of $3.9 billion for the next fiscal year.

The health coverage for 600,000 Puerto Ricans in the hands of Congress

The island urgently needs more funds to avoid a fiscal cliff in October

Joe Biden supports eliminating Medicaid funding caps for Puerto Rico

The President also proposes to move toward parity in SSI and Nutrition Assistance as part of the proposals included in the budget he sent to Congress yesterday

The U.S. Capitol building, from right, Washington Monument and Lincoln Memorial stand in Washington, D.C.

Puerto Rico Statehood Council and Puerto Rico Equality Forum groups have spent millions on congressional work

They are seeking to convince Congress that the island should be the 51st state

Former Governors Ricardo Rosselló and Wanda Vázquez

Rosselló and Vázquez Garced allocated $ 29 million in contracts for companies that lobbied in Washington

Some of the firms hired by past PNP administrations still have agreements with the Pedro Pierluisi administration

Natalie Jaresko, Puerto Rico Fiscal Oversight Board Executive Director.

Puerto Rico Fiscal Oversight Board is willing to amend the budget

Natalie Jaresko, the entity´s executive director, stressed that if the Plan of Adjustment is confirmed, this will be the first of the four consecutive balanced budgets required for the Board to stop operating in the island

Board and Pierluisi’s budget proposals would be insufficient to cover next fiscal year expenses

It is still not clear where the money to pay PREPA´s debt or the salaries of those employees who will not work for Luma Energy would come from

The PNP had anticipated that between 100,000 to 125,000 voters would turn out to vote.

Puerto Rico: Lobbyists election with stumbles

Low voter turnout and a police complaint against a school official stood out in an event where Ricardo Rosselló seems to be one of the winners.

Pedro Pierluisi spent the weekend in Washington D.C.

Pedro Pierluisi and Nydia Velázquez to discuss Puerto Rico’s political status

The governor and PNP president plans to meet with the Puerto Rican Democratic congresswoman on his next trip to Washington D.C.

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