<\/a><\/b><\/span><\/p>\nThe approved budget cut government spending by 345 million dollars, including a cut of 24 million dollars for the Legislature, which will now operate with 111 million dollars for fiscal year 2019.<\/span><\/p>\nAnd here\u2019s why this all matters in the 2020 Presidential election. Hundreds of thousands of US citizens (everyone born in Puerto Rico is a US citizen) moved to the United States after Hurricane Maria. Most of these have landed in Florida. Let\u2019s be blunt that most of these are Democratic voters. <\/span><\/p>\nPresident Trump won Florida with 48.6% of the vote compared to Hillary Clinton at 47.4%. This is a difference of 166,911 votes. <\/span><\/p>\nIt is very possible that the influx of US citizens from Puerto Rico will turn the state and be a deciding factor in the 2020 election. <\/span><\/p>\nI hope you\u2019ve found this article on Puerto Rico to be helpful. For more information, or for assistance in starting a business offshore, please contact us below by filling out the form, Thank you. <\/span><\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The United States and Puerto Rico have a very interesting relationship. Many, including some residents of both countries have no idea if Puerto Rico is its own nation or a part of the United States. We see a lot of confusion on this point and I expect it to have a major impact on the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":686,"featured_media":5702,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"content-type":"","om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"footnotes":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"yst_prominent_words":[14434,14431,14438,5578,5569,14433,14430,3041,14437,2903,14435,2809,2926,6021,2409,14436,2131,2411,1804,14432],"acf":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.escapeartist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/skyline-buildings-new-york-skyscrapers-large.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.escapeartist.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20672"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.escapeartist.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.escapeartist.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.escapeartist.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/686"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.escapeartist.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20672"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.escapeartist.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20672\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28548,"href":"https:\/\/www.escapeartist.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20672\/revisions\/28548"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.escapeartist.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5702"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.escapeartist.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20672"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.escapeartist.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20672"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.escapeartist.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20672"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.escapeartist.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=20672"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}