Biden highlights hurricane relief efforts in Puerto Rico after years of Trump obstruction
The Trump administration held up billions of dollars in relief funds for Puerto Rico after Hurricanes Irma and Maria.
By Oliver Willis - January 21, 2022The Trump administration held up billions of dollars in relief funds for Puerto Rico after Hurricanes Irma and Maria.
By Oliver Willis - January 21, 2022Trump blocked billions in relief aid to Puerto Rico for Hurricane Maria for over a year.
By Emily Singer - February 02, 2021Trump’s crisis playbook — blaming local officials, casting himself as the victim, and praising his own response — hasn’t changed since 2017.
By Dan Desai Martin - April 07, 2020The Trump administration is withholding $8 billion in disaster aid until Puerto Rico agrees to certain conditions, including paying workers less.
By Dan Desai Martin - January 15, 2020Trump has been criticized for his treatment of the island in the past, particularly his response in the wake of Hurricane Maria.
By Josh Israel - December 18, 2019There’s a tropical storm taking aim at Puerto Rico, and Trump is using it as an opportunity to tweet and complain.
By Lisa Needham - August 27, 2019Americans give Trump poor marks when it comes to how he handled Charlottesville, Hurricane Maria, and mass shootings in Pittsburgh, El Paso, and Dayton.
By Dan Desai Martin - August 19, 2019HUD Secretary Ben Carson just announced that even though Puerto Rico is entitled to $8.3 billion in disaster mitigation funds, they won’t be getting it any time soon.
By Lisa Needham - August 05, 2019Republicans voted against the relief bill because they think the storm ravaged island Puerto Rico doesn’t deserve any more help.
By Emily Singer - May 10, 2019‘This cruelty cannot stand,’ House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said.
By Dan Desai Martin - January 18, 2019Republicans in Congress thoroughly investigated Hurricane Katrina in 2005, but they’ve done almost nothing about Hurricane Maria.
By Dan Desai Martin - September 17, 2018Trump’s FEMA administrator, Brock Long, shows he’s more of a political hack than a public servant.
By Tommy Christopher - September 16, 2018Trump is refusing to acknowledge the thousands of Americans who died as he praises himself yet again.
By Kaili Joy Gray - September 13, 2018Trump claims his administration’s response to Hurricane Maria in Puerto Rico was a ‘success,’ but the numbers tell a very different story.
By Caroline Orr - September 12, 2018Trump tries to gaslight Americans about his failures during Hurricane Maria.
By Eric Boehlert - September 12, 2018‘If he thinks the death of 3,000 people [is] a success God help us all.’
By Caroline Orr - September 11, 2018Trump once again downplayed the tragedy of his administration’s failure in Puerto Rico, where 2,975 people died in the aftermath of Hurricane Maria.
By Dan Desai Martin - September 11, 2018Hurricane Maria had a higher death toll than Hurricane Katrina — but Trump claimed his administration’s botched response to Maria was ‘fantastic.’
By Oliver Willis - August 29, 2018‘The administration killed the Puerto Ricans with neglect.’
By Tommy Christopher - August 29, 2018Nearly 5,000 Americans have died from major hurricanes under the last two Republican presidents.
By Eric Boehlert - August 28, 2018Trump wants to distract you from the real problems he has done nothing about.
By Tommy Christopher - August 13, 2018Instead of addressing reports that nearly 5,000 people died on his watch in Puerto Rico during Hurricane Maria, Trump was busy tweeting about TV, his campaign crowd size, and Hillary Clinton.
By Oliver Willis - May 30, 2018Trump’s callous assessment that Hurricane Maria wasn’t ‘a real catastrophe like Katrina’ was wrong then, and has proven to be even more wrong now.
By Tommy Christopher - May 29, 2018