Trump Complained That Puerto Rico Has Gotten Too Much Aid, Senators Say

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Source: Bloomberg

President Donald Trump during a private lunch with Republican senators on Tuesday leveled criticism at Puerto Rico’s use of past disaster aid, further complicating the Senate’s struggle to pass a $14 billion relief bill.

Trump used charts to illustrate his view that Puerto Rico has been given too much in disaster aid over recent years compared to states like Texas and has failed to make good use of it, senators said.

Puerto Rico was devastated by Hurricanes Irma and Maria in 2017 and as Congress debates further assistance, its residents are at risk of losing food aid by the end of the month. Unlike U.S. states that have guaranteed nutrition assistance funding, Puerto Rico’s program is run as a limited block grant. The additional funds provided in the wake of Maria are running out.

Senate Democrats said that the foot-dragging on Puerto Rico aid is part of a pattern of negligence on the part of the Trump administration:
“The lack of leadership and coordination, combined with delays in meeting the basic needs of the island, more than 18 months after receiving a presidential disaster declaration, has left far too many children and elderly citizens in unhealthy and unsafe conditions, families in severely damaged homes and communities without adequate infrastructure to sustain a decent quality of life,” Minority Leader Chuck Schumer of New York and Senator Patrick Leahy of Vermont, the top Democrat on the Appropriations Committee, wrote.



Read more: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-03-26/trump-blasts-puerto-rico-as-senate-bickers-over-disaster-aid?srnd=politics-vp

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[tanyev]

1. C'mon, they got to see him throw those paper towels like a basketball star--

what more could they possibly want?

[sakabatou]

2. What a goddamn asshole!

[Ford_Prefect]

3. Entitled White Racists Always Blame Victims for Being Too Needy.

I notice that North Dakota was declared worthy of aid in a heartbeat.

[Chin music]

6. Oil sands I bet.

[Ford_Prefect]

8. As much preserving White Privilege as anything else, IMO.

[Chin music]

9. Don't they go hand in hand?

I think you're right.

[Judi Lynn]

4. Each statement Trump burbles is even more brilliant than the ones before!

Mitch can only look on adoringly.



Trump is truly Mitch's kind of congenital idiot.

[Chin music]

5. trumps still grudging over that golf course.

Give up the grudge don.

[JustAnotherGen]

7. $3.5 Billion - PR paid to the Treasury in 2016

Let that sink in.

3.5 Billion.

That's one year.

Fuck that guy and that "it" in the picture. I will piss on both of their graves those evil sick corrupt venal pig shit bastards.

[Honeycombe8]

10. He wants to bill a wall around Puerto Rico, now?

Look at McConnell's adoring look at Trump. You tell me that he doesn't look happy with Trump. I'll answer that: yes, he sure does.

[DRoseDARs]

11. Preaching to the choir, but Texas has a well-developed economy and can absorb costs better.

Puerto Rico can not because its state economy is much smaller and weaker. Of course, none of that matters. We all know it's really about PR being filled with brown people. Don't think for one second that, if it were a state, it would be treated any different by Trump.

[cstanleytech]

15. If it was a blue state would be given the same treatment especially if it

was California where Trump got his ass kicked during the election because the majority of people there refused to believe his lies.

[Evolve Dammit]

12. Drumph's response to PR was aggressively racist. Period.

[LastLiberal in PalmSprings]

13. Wow! What did Puerto Rico ever do to Fat Donnie?

Did someone not catch one of his paper towel passes?

[gademocrat7]

14. Chump is a despicable bastard.

[Lock him up.]

16. Way to go to turn Florida BLUE

orange individual 1

Keep opening your sh!thole.

[mahina]

17. Racist MF. God help them. And us!