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prima:How does Puerto Rico’s fiscal situation affect a statehood petition?

This issue has been raised in the Washington D.C. and Puerto Rico cases

July 7, 2022 - 9:29 AM

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Justin Peterson, center, with John Nixon (left) and Fiscal Oversight Board Chairman David Skeel, right. (david.villafane@gfrmedia.com)

Washington D. C. – When the U.S. House debated the proposal to make Washington D. C. the 51st state, Democrat Gerard Connolly warned that in considering whether to admit a new state Congress should ask, among other things, whether that jurisdiction has “sufficient resources and population to support itself and its share of the costs to be part of the federal government?”.

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