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struggle4progress

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Fri Sep 29, 2017, 06:17 AM Sep 2017

Tweets about amazing FEMA response but locals still waiting for aid

By J.J. GALLAGHER
JOSHUA HOYOS
EVA PILGRIM
Sep 28, 2017, 11:25 PM ET

... Trump took to Twitter on Thursday night to defend the federal government's response to the disaster in Puerto Rico ...

... residents .. and outside observers have taken the government to task for .. insufficient action after Maria, the strongest hurricane to hit the island in nearly 90 years ...

"Just waiting, we're still waiting," a doctor at the hospital said, adding that FEMA has only delivered water so far ...

Ret. Lt. Gen. Russel Honore, who was called in to turn around the response to Hurricane Katrina by then-President George W. Bush, said the delay in issuing the waiver for Puerto Rico was "a crying damn shame" ...

http://abcnews.go.com/US/trump-tweets-fema-amazing-great-job-puerto-rico/story?id=50170044

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Tweets about amazing FEMA response but locals still waiting for aid (Original Post) struggle4progress Sep 2017 OP
People are dying in Puerto Rico due to trump's incompetence Gothmog Sep 2017 #1
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