President Trump threatens to pull Puerto Rico Relief Efforts
President Trump ‘s Twitter fingers went at it again this (Thursday) morning and in a series of tweets, he suggested that he will pull relief efforts in the island region…
DALLAS, TX – SEPTEMBER 14: Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump speaks during a campaign rally at the American Airlines Center on September 14, 2015 in Dallas, Texas. More than 20,000 tickets have been distributed for the event. (Photo by Tom Pennington/Getty Images)
(Photo by Tom Pennington/Getty Images)President Trump 's Twitter fingers went at it again this (Thursday) morning and in a series of tweets, he suggested that he will pull relief efforts in the island region that is still recovering from hurricane damage.
The Washington Post reports:
Declaring the U.S. territory’s electrical grid and infrastructure to have been a “disaster before hurricanes,” Trump wrote Thursday that it will be up to Congress how much federal money to appropriate to the island for its recovery efforts and that recovery workers will not stay “forever.”
“We cannot keep FEMA, the Military & the First Responders, who have been amazing (under the most difficult circumstances) in P.R. forever!”
Three weeks since Maria made landfall, much of Puerto Rico, an island of 3.4 million people, remains without power. Residents struggle to find clean water, hospitals are running short on medicine and commerce is slow with many businesses closed.
