Elizabeth Warren headed to Puerto Rico next week

[DonViejo]

By Liz Goodwin GLOBE STAFF JANUARY 18, 2019

Elizabeth Warren is headed to Puerto Rico next week for an event in San Juan. She’ll lead a “community conversation” at the Alejandro Tapia y Rivera Theater Tuesday evening, according to an e-mail sent out to her supporters in Puerto Rico.

Warren led most of the Massachusetts delegation on a trip to the region almost exactly a year ago, where she sharply criticized the Trump administration’s response to Hurricane Maria.

The backdrop will likely lead the senator, who is two weeks into an exploratory presidential campaign, to draw a sharp contrast with the president. Earlier this week, Warren tweeted that it was “unacceptable” for Trump to consider poaching disaster relief money in order to pay for the wall he wants built on the Southern border.

Link to tweet

Warren’s made Puerto Rican relief a key issue in the Senate, holding a rally on Capitol Hill last year for debt relief and signing onto a bill that would have provided the island with $146 billion in recovery funds had it passed.

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[democratisphere]

1. Very accomplished woman doing her homework to run for the Presidency.

I admire this person a lot!