“Denying the funds they need to recover while requesting the ‘A+ treatment’ for other states is insulting to Puerto Ricans and for Latinos in general,” Sen. Bob Menendez said.
the deaths never happened and that the death toll was “done by the Democrats to make me look as bad as possible.”Puerto Rico’s request for $600 million for food stamps “excessive and unnecessary.”
Sen. Richard Blumenthal, who co-signed the letter with Menendez, said that he thought the president’s criticisms of Puerto RIco “are bizarre beyond belief. Puerto Rico is struggling, it is still recovering and the federal government is shortchanging them.” food stamp checks for 1.3 million Puerto Ricans as initial disaster relief funds for food stamps have run out.that included more funding for Puerto Rico, and ultimately the funding would rely on a signature from the president, who has now repeatedly said he doesn’t believe Puerto Rico should get more disaster relief money.
One of the senators involved in crafting the Republican proposal, Sen. David Perdue of Georgia, was among several Republicans who said on Tuesday that they didn’t think the president complaining about disaster funding for Puerto Rico meant that he wouldn’t support the bill. “Puerto Rico was devastated, devastated, by Hurricane Maria a year and a half ago, devastation that we haven’t probably seen in any other part of our country.”
“The president is willing to endanger the entire disaster package for all of the United States because he wants to pick winners and losers,” Leahy said.
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