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Trump trying to stop Puerto Rico aid

K1052

K1052

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Puerto Rico faces food stamps crisis as Trump privately vents about federal aid to Hurricane Maria-battered island

The federal government provided additional food stamp aid to Puerto Rico after the hurricane, but Congress missed the deadline for reauthorization in March as it focused on other issues before leaving for a week-long recess. Federal lawmakers have also been stalled by the Trump administration, which has derided the extra aid as unnecessary.

Now, about 43 percent of Puerto Rico’s residents are grappling with a sudden cut to a benefit they rely on for groceries and other essentials.
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But at an Oval Office meeting on Feb. 22, Trump asked top advisers for ways to limit federal support from going to Puerto Rico, believing it is taking money that should be going to the mainland, according to senior administration officials who spoke on the condition of anonymity to share details of the presidents’ private remarks.

The meeting — an afternoon session focused on Housing and Urban Development grants — ended abruptly, and Trump has continued to ask aides how much money the island will get. Then, Trump said he wanted the money to only fortify the electric grid there.

Trump has also privately signaled he will not approve any additional help for Puerto Rico beyond the food stamp money, setting up a congressional showdown with Democrats who have pushed for more expansive help for the island.

A senior administration official with direct knowledge of the meeting described Trump’s stance: “He doesn’t want another single dollar going to the island.”
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The impasse comes amid a hardening opposition by the president against extending additional aid to Puerto Rico. Trump sees the island as fundamentally broken and has told advisers that no amount of money will ever fix its systemic problems.

He describes in meetings that large swaths of the island never had power to begin with and that it is “ridiculous” how much money is going to Puerto Rico in food stamp aid, according to the senior official. He has occasionally groused about how ungrateful political officials in Puerto Rico were for the administration’s help, the official said.

Trump also read a Wall Street Journal story from October and became convinced that bondholders and others were profiting off federal government aid — and grew furious. (The story describes prices on Puerto Rico’s bonds increasing after its governing fiscal board projected disaster funding would boost the island’s overall economic health.) Since then, aides have described a president who regularly brings up the island to make sure it is not getting too much money. Current and former officials say Trump often complains in meetings that Puerto Rico doesn’t even know how to spend the money the island has been allocated.
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https://www.washingtonpost.com/busi...61983b7e0cd_story.html?utm_term=.208643c1685e


A consequence of somebody who exists in their own reality is that they are unmovable by the facts on the ground. This kind of abandonment of US citizens would never be tolerated in a place that was a state or had a bunch more people who aren't brown.
 
Time to make PR, Guam, US Mariana Islands, US Virgin Islands, American Samoa into states.

Am I missing any other incorporated territory?
 
Maybe Trump should meet with the president of puerto rico.


This sucks next season is right around the corner and it is not been cleared up
 
That's our Donald- always fuckin' somebody, generally a whole bunch of brown somebodies. Fuckity-fuck-fuck-fuck.

It'll drive more of them onto the Mainland where they can work cheap at Mar-a-lago. Don't tell the White Supremacists.
 
Luna1968 said:
who is we? the the people of Puerto Rico keep voting no on statehood.
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Seems to me the last two referendums had the majority of people voting they would prefer to be a state. I suspect with their dire situation right now. If they were given a choice of statehood and the federal benefits that comes with it. They would again vote to become a state.

Right now their situation is bleak. As those that can are leaving for the mainland. Leaving a shrinking workforce\economy while increasing debts to pay for Hurricane cleanup efforts.
 
K1052 said:
Puerto Rico faces food stamps crisis as Trump privately vents about federal aid to Hurricane Maria-battered island









https://www.washingtonpost.com/busi...61983b7e0cd_story.html?utm_term=.208643c1685e


A consequence of somebody who exists in their own reality is that they are unmovable by the facts on the ground. This kind of abandonment of US citizens would never be tolerated in a place that was a state or had a bunch more people who aren't brown.
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They need to pack what they can, and move to Florida and New York. Then they can help vote Trump out.
 
Nasty memories of a failed golf resort flying the vaunted Trump brand name over there must still piss off the self-admitted "genius" who knows-all-sees-all every time he thinks about it. Yet, that island refuses to sink into the ocean to make people forget about what he did (didn't do) over there.
 
This is just Trump continuing to struggle to come to grips that people in Puerto Rico are actually American citizens. It is pathetic that we are not above this.
 
Yep either make them a State or cut them loose. Big banks do not want to let them be cut loose as they know they will not pay out on their debt. So the banks love the status quo right now.
 
Jimzz said:
Yep either make them a State or cut them loose. Big banks do not want to let them be cut loose as they know they will not pay out on their debt. So the banks love the status quo right now.
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That won't put food on the table next month.
 
"Puerto Rico got 91 Billion Dollars for the hurricane, more money than has ever been gotten for a hurricane before, & all their local politicians do is complain & ask for more money. The pols are grossly incompetent, spend the money foolishly or corruptly, & only take from USA. The best thing that ever happened to Puerto Rico is President Donald J. Trump. So many wonderful people, but with such bad Island leadership and with so much money wasted. Cannot continue to hurt our Farmers and States with these massive payments, and so little appreciation! "

Trump Twitter today...
 
zzyzxroad said:
"Puerto Rico got 91 Billion Dollars for the hurricane, more money than has ever been gotten for a hurricane before, & all their local politicians do is complain & ask for more money. The pols are grossly incompetent, spend the money foolishly or corruptly, & only take from USA. The best thing that ever happened to Puerto Rico is President Donald J. Trump. So many wonderful people, but with such bad Island leadership and with so much money wasted. Cannot continue to hurt our Farmers and States with these massive payments, and so little appreciation! "

Trump Twitter today...
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Trump lies-

https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/nidhiprakash/donald-trump-lies-puerto-rico-disaster-funding
 
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