In his strongest rebuke yet of President Trump, Gov. Ricardo Rosselló called his comments “below the dignity of a sitting president” and “irresponsible, regrettable and, above all, unjustified,” while suggesting Trump has dodged meeting him.
While FEMA admitted to widespread failures after Maria ravaged Puerto Rico in September 2017, Trump has insisted his administration “did a fantastic job” and criticized the island’s requests for billions to rebuild.
In January, he said he would reject $600 million in food stamps for Puerto Ricans and asked the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers to look into diverting some of its $13.9 billion in emergency funds for the island to pay for his border wall. One senior administration official recently told the Washington Post that Trump’s stance is that “he doesn’t want another single dollar going to the island.
Rosselló also took issue with allegations that disaster relief has been diverted to help pay off the island’s crippling debt. “I want to be very clear: Not a single federal dollar has been used to make debt payments,” he said. “This has been the most transparent recovery in the history of the United States, providing unprecedented access and collaboration with federal agencies.”
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