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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsWith his polls spiraling, @RealDonaldTrump proposes a disaster relief package for Puerto Rico--more
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Max Burns
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With his polls spiraling, @RealDonaldTrump proposes a disaster relief package for Puerto Rico--more than three years after their public officials first begged Trump for help.
David Begnaud
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Scoop: Tomorrow, the White House will announce several major disaster aid packages for Puerto Rico, amounting to the largest allotment of disaster aid in U.S. history. Most of the money will be used to rebuild the power grid that was destroyed by Hurricane Maria, 3yrs ago today.
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With his polls spiraling, @RealDonaldTrump proposes a disaster relief package for Puerto Rico--more (Original Post)
soothsayer
Sep 2020
OP
This. The plan is right in his back pocket with the health care plan. And his taxes. We'll get
Squinch
Sep 2020
#11
Thekaspervote
(32,788 posts)1. Happy for Puerto Rico ..as far as helping him win..to little too late
California wild fires,
Hurricanes
Flooding
To say nothing of the covid 19 deaths
CaptYossarian
(6,448 posts)4. Who will get the locusts?
tinrobot
(10,914 posts)5. Sadly, I doubt he will follow through on the promise.
He never follows through.
Squinch
(50,993 posts)11. This. The plan is right in his back pocket with the health care plan. And his taxes. We'll get
them all in a week or two.
CaptYossarian
(6,448 posts)2. We can exhume the bodies and put paper towels inside the caskets.
BlueWavePsych
(2,640 posts)3. Puerto Ricans won't forget ...
and Floridians too.
tinrobot
(10,914 posts)6. It may be great for Puerto Rico, but it is a boneheaded political move.
All he's doing is reminding people that he failed Puerto Rico, too.
Please proceed. Donny.
bdamomma
(63,919 posts)7. too little
too late isn't it???
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Tanuki
(14,920 posts)9. At this point it comes across as an attempted bribe.
Thekaspervote
(32,788 posts)10. Indeed!
riversedge
(70,285 posts)12. New York Congresswoman @NydiaVelazquez just released a statement saying the Trump administration ".
David Begnaud
@DavidBegnaud
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NOW: New York Congresswoman @NydiaVelazquez
just released a statement saying the Trump administration ...dragged its feet and resisted allocating these badly needed funds... she suggests the Presidents motivation is political ...forty-seven days before the election...
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crickets
(25,982 posts)13. Oh, dude is desperate.
trump deciding to finally 'help' Puerto Rico years too late is just precious. He's scrambling for something, anything to scrounge votes and shore up his image.
Sorry, Puerto Rico. He'll have changed his mind or forgotten all about it by next week.
ooky
(8,926 posts)14. Just another lie.
But Joe will help PR.