The Executive Director of the Puerto Rico Federal Affairs Administration (PRFAA), Gabriella Boffelli, categorically denied the rumors regarding an alleged official memorandum circulating within the federal government. The document in question claims the existence of a strategy by President Donald Trump’s administration concerning Puerto Rico.

The Executive Director of the Puerto Rico Federal Affairs Administration (PRFAA), Gabriella Boffelli, welcomed the new Director of the White House Office of Intergovernmental Affairs, Alex Meyer, with whom she has been in discussions since early January.

As Congress begins work on a budget reconciliation and tax reform package, Governor Jenniffer Gonzalez-Colón announced today that Representatives Ron Estes (R-Kansas) and Stacey Plaskett (D-U.S. Virgin Islands) have introduced bipartisan legislation to temporarily increase the amount of funding transferred to Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands from the excise taxes collected on rum produced in the two territories and imported in to the rest of the United States, commonly known as the rum cover-over. The bill would extend the increase through 2032 and make it retroactive to January 1, 2022.