Donald Trump reappoints David Skeel and Arthur González to the board of directors following the next change to the Senate order

Washington DC – President Donald Trump he reappointed David Skeel and Arthur González as members of the Fiscal Oversight Board (JSF).

The information was brought out this morning The new day by sources close to the White House and later confirmed by the tax authority itself, which in a statement welcomed the appointments that “complete the process of appointing the seven members of the Council for a three-year term.”

The decision to reappoint Skeel was made after a vote in Georgia, which may have left Democrats in control of the Senate majority.

Charles Schumer (New York), the next leader of the Senate Democratic majority, could have recommended the candidate to replace Skeel, who was re-proposed as a member of the Board of Directors by current Republican majority leader Mitch McConnell. .

Arthur González was nominated for another term on the Board of Directors by Speaker Nancy Pelosi.

If Schumer could have chosen a replacement for Skeel, whose appointment expired in August 2019, the Democrats could have recommended 4 of the seven members of the Council, who controls Puerto Rico’s public finances.

The appointments were revealed amid the chaos of President Trump’s violent takeover of Congress by supporters of President Trump, as the Senate and the House met to receive the electoral college results confirming Joe Biden’s March 3 victory. from November.

Skeel is the current Council President. It was recommended by McConnell in August 2016. Although he was reinstated as a candidate for the Republican Senator, the White House had delayed his nomination.

Arthur González, a former bankruptcy judge, was directly appointed in August 2016 by then-President Barack Obama.

Although he was on Pelosi’s list of recommendations, González was forced to leave the position just months after President Trump selected the managing partner of the PR and lobbying companies DCI Group, Justin Peterson, for the position, who represented creditors until the summer of 2018. from the island’s government.

At a time when it needs to consider the Puerto Rico government’s debt adjustment plan, to be presented to Judge Laura Taylor Swain by February 10, the board will now have seven members with new appointments.

In addition to Skeel and Peterson, the other members of the tax body recommended by Republicans in Congress are Andrew Biggs, who has been proposed for a second term by Senator McConnell, and John Nixon, who was the candidate of Republican minority leader Kevin McCarthy. .

At the request of the Democrats, Trump, meanwhile, has given a new three-year term to former Judge González and appointed former Industrial Development Company (Pridco) Antonio Medina for the first time – on the nomination of Pelosi and the Interim Commissioner of Education. of New York, Betty Rosa, promoted by Schumer.