Pedro Pierluisi: “The ballot results will speak for themselves.”

The people of Puerto Rico voted and chose permanent union with the United States through statehood as their path forward.

To think that you can put that aside just because you are facing a public debt issue or facing a recession in Puerto Rico misses the point all together.

Nobody should expect that I will allow, if I can help it, for a major disruption of our system just because some people didn't like the P3 process.

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.