{"id":392569,"date":"2023-05-29T06:06:39","date_gmt":"2023-05-28T20:06:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/?p=392569"},"modified":"2023-05-29T06:06:39","modified_gmt":"2023-05-28T20:06:39","slug":"kilili-astonished-over-the-us-houses-10-day-recess-without-acting-on-raising-debt-ceiling","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/kilili-astonished-over-the-us-houses-10-day-recess-without-acting-on-raising-debt-ceiling\/","title":{"rendered":"Kilili astonished over the US House\u2019s 10-day recess without acting on raising debt ceiling"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_392576\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-392576\" style=\"width: 960px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/Kilili.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-392576\" src=\"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/Kilili-1024x531.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"960\" height=\"498\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-392576\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Gregorio Kilili C. Sablan<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Delegate Gregorio Kilili C. Sablan (D-MP) has expressed astonishment at the 10-day recess the U.S. House of Representatives was taking without acting on raising the debt ceiling.<\/p>\n<p>In a one-minute speech on the House floor last Friday, Sablan said if he has to go home and face 700 veterans and their families, their question is what is going to happen to their benefits.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey have to take extra paperwork to get it and people would lose access to their food benefits, their health benefits. Teachers, firemen, first responders, police officers, these are individuals who [are going to] lose their access to the benefits that they usually get from either from Social Security, from their [Veterans Administration] checks and etc.,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>Sablan told the House speaker that they should return to the House the following day and continue the work before them. \u201cIt\u2019s too important to allow us to go home,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>The delegate in his <em>e-kilili <\/em>newsletter on Saturday that, without legislative action, the U.S. government will be unable to pay its debts, perhaps as early as next Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>Defaulting on the debt puts 3,500 Social Security recipients in the Marianas at risk, jeopardizes the CNMI\u2019s 26,000 Medicare and Medicaid recipients, and would raise interest rates for anyone who buys a home or car or borrows to expand their business, Sablan said.<\/p>\n<p>Sablan stated that the Republicans\u2019 continuing inaction to raise the debt ceiling will have deeply damaging effects on Marianas residents.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Delegate Gregorio Kilili C. Sablan (D-MP) has expressed astonishment at the 10-day recess the U.S&#8230;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":392576,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[23771],"class_list":["post-392569","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-news","tag-kilili"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/392569","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=392569"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/392569\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/392576"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=392569"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=392569"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=392569"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}