The president has inflated how much disaster money Puerto Rico has received and falsely claimed that the island has gotten “more money than has ever been gotten for a hurricane before.”
Jose Javier Santana holds a Puerto Rican flag he found on the ground after Hurricane Maria.
A senior administration official said the source of the $91 billion figure Trump has repeatedly used is a combination of the $41 billion in disaster aid that’s been allocated to the island and another $50 billion the administration anticipates will be needed over the “life of the disaster,” which usually means several years and possibly decades.
Democrats say the president’s aversion to providing aid to the island is based on a racist and colonialist attitude towards Puerto Rico, and the idea that Puerto Rico and its 3.1 million US citizens are not really part of the US. Aid for Puerto Rico in terms of funding, federal emergency personnel on the ground, and supplies, came in slower than it did to Texas and Florida in the aftermath of their storms in 2017, according toIn the immediate aftermath of Hurricane Maria, Trump compared the storm to Katrina, saying the storm that hit Puerto Rico was not a “real disaster” like Katrina, because the official death toll at the time stood at just 16, compared to the 1,833 peopleas a result of Katrina.
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