Gregorio Sablan: “The Mariana Islands, which I represent, and the four other U.S. insular areas all face a Medicaid cliff at the end of…”

Today is, indeed, a very important day, historic in some ways, because it marks the beginning of what I hope and I believe will be a successful bipartisan effort to renew the financial provisions of the Compacts of Free Association

I want to commend Chairman Westerman and Ranking Member Grijalva for creating this Indo-Pacific Task Force to provide for a bipartisan process.

I mentioned that the CNMI is facing financial conditions that make our commonwealth again acutely vulnerable to Chinese Communist Party exploitation.

I explained the path we are forging to fiscal, economic, and social stability in the Commonwealth.