Democrats plan to investigate why HUD has missed a 90-day deadline to begin allowing Puerto Rico to apply for more than $8 billion in allocated mitigation funds for natural disasters.
The Department of Housing and Urban Development has yet to give Puerto Rico the ability to apply for billions of dollars in natural disaster mitigation aid that was appropriated by Congress three months ago, something that Democrats say violates the law.
by phone."The delay is not acceptable, and it's certainly not acceptable to single-out Puerto Rico. The president's rhetoric on this raises a lot of questions about what's going on here and where this directive is coming from." Puerto Rico would have to wait an unspecified amount of time before receiving their allocated mitigation funds
The senior officials further said there were several HUD personnel in Puerto Rico, including a financial monitor, to ensure previous federal money already doled out was being properly used.
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