| Trump Attaches Severe Restrictions to Puerto Rico's Long-Delayed Disaster Aid |
| Written by <a href="index.php?option=com_comprofiler&task=userProfile&user=52993"><span class="small">Lola Fadulu and Mark Walker, The New York Times</span></a> |
| Friday, 17 January 2020 13:56 |
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Excerpt: "The Trump administration imposed severe restrictions on Wednesday on billions of dollars in emergency relief to Puerto Rico, including blocking spending on the island's electrical grid and suspending its $15-an-hour minimum wage for federally funded relief work."
Trump Attaches Severe Restrictions to Puerto Rico's Long-Delayed Disaster Aid17 January 20
The nearly $16 billion in funding, released while Puerto Ricans still sleep on the streets for fear of aftershocks from last week’s earthquake, is part of $20 billion that Congress allocated for disaster recovery and preparation more than a year ago, in response to the commonwealth being hit by back-to-back hurricanes in 2017. The Department of Housing and Urban Development had released only $1.5 billion of the congressional relief, citing concerns about political corruption. Of that, only $5 million has been spent. |
he Trump administration imposed severe restrictions on Wednesday on billions of dollars in emergency relief to Puerto Rico, including blocking spending on the island’s electrical grid and suspending its $15-an-hour minimum wage for federally funded relief work.