Jul 18, 2019 · Congress has allocated $42.5 billion to disaster relief for Puerto Rico, according to federal data, but the island had received less than $14 billion through May. Trump signed another aid …
Sep 28, 2017 · 5 Min Read. WASHINGTON/SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (Reuters) - Puerto Rico is likely to need far more than $30 billion in long-term aid from …
Feb 09, 2018 · The aid announced on Friday provides just a fraction of the $94.4 billion Rossello has said the island needs to recover from cataclysmic damage to its infrastructure and housing stock, although...
Sep 22, 2020 · Over the next three years, Trump consistently blocked disaster funding for the archipelago, saying Congress had "foolishly" spent $92 …
Hurricane Maria alone inflicted an estimated $90 billion in damage, for which Congress allocated only $42.5 billion in disaster relief. The Trump administration allocated a mere $26 billion of that money; much of it has yet to be disbursed.
Hurricanes Irma and Maria shattered Puerto Rico, plunged the islands into darkness and caused the deaths of almost 3,000 Puerto Ricans three years ago; the islands' residents and the Boricua diaspora remember it as if it happened yesterday.
Susanne Ramírez de Arellano is a freelance writer and journalist based in New York City. She is the former news director of Channel 11-Univision in Puerto Rico and has worked for ABC News, APTN in London and CNN International. She writes a blog for El Nuevo Dia digital.
But it is still unclear exactly when those funds will reach the hurricane-ravaged island. The tranche of money, more than $8 billion, is allocated through a Department of Housing and Urban Development disaster recovery fund.
The announcement came the same day Pedro Pierluisi was sworn in as the new governor of Puerto Rico. Days later the island's Supreme Court ruled unanimously that his swearing in was unconstitutional. He was removed and former Justice Secretary Wanda Vázquez was sworn in.
An official with the Federal Emergency Management Agency was arrested by federal agents in September for allegedly taking bribes in the aftermath of Hurricane Maria from one of the top companies hired to rebuild Puerto Rico's fractured power grid. Puerto Rico Earthquake. disaster recovery. hurricane Maria.
Chris Sommerfeldt. Chris Sommerfeldt is a reporter covering City Hall and all things NYC politics for the Daily News . Prior, Chris covered the Trump and Biden administrations, Congress and national politics. He began working for the Daily News in 2015 as a general assignment reporter.
People whose homes are unsafe to enter after the previous day's magnitude 6.4 earthquake, line up for lunch in an outdoor area of the Bernardino Cordero Bernard High School, amid aftershocks and no electricity in Ponce, Puerto Rico on Wednesday. (Carlos Giusti/AP)
Congressional Democrats were outraged and said the Trump administration is breaking the law by withholding the congressionally approved money. "The ongoing withholding of funds appropriated by Congress to Puerto Rico is illegal,” House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) told reporters at a Thursday press conference.
The infographic above depicts how Money Flows from Puerto Rico to the US and vice-versa.
As I searched for more information, Lucy also pointed out a Google+ post shared by one of the most brilliant individuals I know living on the Island Mr. Marcos Polanco.
Having an accounting background and working many years as an Auditor, I can only say that numbers and stats can be played with. I am not saying that the information above on Federal Funds to Puerto Rico is wrong or right.
Omar Marrero is one of Puerto Rico’s top hurricane recovery officials. Omar: When you talk about how much money has been allocated, earmarked for Puerto Rico, you're talking about billions. Then you're like, "Well, they're well off.". No.
Sharyl: Fueling discontent in Puerto Rico is news that the FBI is investigating a number of government officials and contractors are under fbi investigation over allegations of misuse of all the taxpayer money sent in after Hurricane Maria. The FBI has arrested six top Puerto Rican government officials and consultants.
Puerto Rico is extremely poor. At least 46% of its residents, 1.3 million people, were on welfare before the hurricanes. Alberto Martinez, a history professor and Puerto Rico native, has been tracking the slow progress on the ground.