Asiana Airlines suspended its flights and switched to a charter schedule until June 2024, citing low demand and the Commonwealth Ports Authority (CPA) adoption of a 90 percent hike in landing fees and a 79 percent increase in terminal rental fees back in September 2023.

[10][11][12] The stronger Dollar and weaker Yen and Won will still pose issues for the CNMI as competition from countries in East and Southeast Asia become more attractive to Korean and Japanese tourists.

[13] On April 29, 2024, Hyatt Regency Saipan announced that it was ceasing operations in the CNMI starting June 30, the same time as Asiana Airlines will end its services.

The declining population has led to lower tax revenue and worse social services and economic conditions, leading to more people leaving and creating a cycle that is difficult to break and is placing pressure on the local government, especially on the incumbents.

[17][18] On April 24, 2023, the Palacios Administration placed some executive branch employees on a 72-hour work schedule, reduced from 80 hours.

[21] The Commonwealth Ports Authority board also adopted an eight-hour cut for all CPA employees and suspended its airline incentive program.

The CNMI is also witnessing a healthcare system that is inadequate to meet the needs of the territory, with many taking trips to neighboring Guam to obtain the services they need.

[38] The CNMI Republican Party endorsed Kimberlyn King-Hinds, former chair of the Commonwealth Ports Authority Board of Directors, as their candidate after John "Bolis" Gonzales, business consultant and independent candidate for U.S. House in 2008, withdrew from the primary, citing the primary being only for party members as his reason, and announced that he will be running as an independent.

The governing Democrat-Independent coalition is entering the 2024 election cycle with sixteen of twenty seats, an overwhelming majority over the minority bloc of three Republicans and one independent.