"Brooklyn Borough President Antonio Reynoso used a Williamsburg press conference Monday to make Puerto Rico policy a central piece of his campaign for Congress, releasing a broad federal platform for the island alongside retiring U.S. Rep. Nydia Velazquez. The plan gives Reynoso a new way to argue that he is best positioned to carry forward Velazquez's legacy in New York's 7th Congressional District, a heavily Democratic Brooklyn-and-Queens seat with deep Puerto Rican political roots."
"Reynoso's plan calls for reintroducing the Puerto Rico Self-Determination Act, setting a timeline to dissolve the federally imposed Fiscal Oversight and Management Board known as La Junta, permanently exempting Puerto Rico from the Jones Act, closing tax incentives formerly known as Act 22 and now consolidated under Act 60, scrutinizing LUMA Energy's management of Puerto Rico's transmission and distribution grid and preventing a looming drop in federal Medicaid support."
"At Monday's press conference, Reynoso described Puerto Rico policy as both a federal obligation and a local issue for a district shaped by generations of Puerto Rican organizing. We shouldn't have to be Puerto Rican to help Puerto Rico, said Reynoso, who is Dominican American. The time for leaders outside of Puerto Rico, outside of being Puerto Rican, to stand up and fight for what is our moral and constitutional obligation is now."
Brooklyn Borough President Antonio Reynoso used a Williamsburg press conference to place Puerto Rico policy at the center of his campaign for Congress, releasing a broad federal platform with retiring U.S. Rep. Nydia Velazquez. The platform is framed as a way to continue Velazquez’s legacy in New York’s 7th Congressional District, a heavily Democratic seat with deep Puerto Rican political roots. Reynoso’s plan calls for reintroducing the Puerto Rico Self-Determination Act, setting a timeline to dissolve La Junta, permanently exempting Puerto Rico from the Jones Act, closing tax incentives formerly known as Act 22 and now consolidated under Act 60, scrutinizing LUMA Energy’s management of the island’s grid, and preventing a looming drop in federal Medicaid support. Reynoso presents Puerto Rico policy as both a federal obligation and a local issue shaped by generations of Puerto Rican organizing.
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