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NY-7: Velázquez backs Reynoso’s Puerto Rico agenda in race for her House seat

By Adam Daly

Posted on May 18, 2026

Brooklyn Borough President Antonio Reynoso used a Williamsburg press conference Monday to make Puerto Rico policy a central piece of his campaign for Congress, releasing a broad federal platform for the island alongside retiring U.S. Rep. Nydia Velázquez.

The plan gives Reynoso a new way to argue that he is best positioned to carry forward Velázquez’s legacy in New York’s 7th Congressional District, a heavily Democratic Brooklyn-and-Queens seat with deep Puerto Rican political roots.

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NY-7: Velázquez backs Reynoso’s Puerto Rico agenda in race for her House seat

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