Pedro Pierluisi: “The final Federal budget should include a permanent extension of this deduction in Puerto Rico.”

We would like to be included in the SNAP program, and we are requesting that. It is only fair that we get the same nutrition assistance as our fellow American citizens in the States.

The people of Puerto Rico voted and chose statehood as their path forward.

I am devoting--it is my call--$500 million of CDBG-MIT funding to provide, basically, solar systems with batteries to roughly 25,000 low-income households.

We need to improve our energy system so we don't have this power disruption for so long after a major disaster.