A woman who identified herself as Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s (D-NY) aunt, outside of the representative’s grandmother’s home in Puerto Rico, refused to blame former President Trump’s administration for the lack of aid in Puerto Rico, according to a report from the Daily Mail.
Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) received backlash Wednesday after sharing photos of her grandmother’s home in Puerto Rico and said Hurricane Maria relief had not arrived, adding, “Trump blocked relief $ for PR.”
President Joe Biden has “won praise” for his “low-key approach” to the natural disaster that knocked out power to much of Texas in the midst of a bitter winter storm, according to the Washington Post.
“We used to have pharmaceutical manufacturing at levels that few places had and a lot of it has left Puerto Rico and we’re going to bring that back,” Trump said, pointing to the growing movement to return drug manufacturing back from countries like China.
San Juan Mayor Carmen Yulín Cruz (PDP), who rose to the national spotlight after routinely criticizing President Trump and his administration over the nation’s response to Hurricane Maria in 2017, lost her primary bid for governor of Puerto Rico over the weekend.
Puerto Rican Miguel Juan Munoz said on Tuesday in Charleston, South Carolina, outside of the Democrat debate venue, he survived Hurricane Maria in 2017 even as President Donald Trump’s efforts to help the U.S. territory were thwarted by government corruption.
Puerto Rico Gov. Wanda Vázquez Garced on Sunday fired two more top officials in wake of the fallout from the discovery of unused Hurricane Maria aid.
Puerto Rico’s disaster agency head was fired Saturday after aid supplies designated for survivors of Hurricane Maria were found unused in a warehouse.
Puerto Rican Mayor Carmen Yulín Cruz said on Saturday thousands of Puerto Ricans died because of Donald Trump’s response to Hurricane Maria.
Chants of “lock him up” broke out as San Juan Mayor Carmen Yulín Cruz trashed President Donald Trump at 2020 White House contender Sen. Bernie Sanders’s (I-VT) Saturday rally in Queens, New York City.
Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) said during a speech at the C40 World Mayors Summit in Copenhagen that her dreams of motherhood now “taste bittersweet” due to climate change.
SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) — Federal authorities said Tuesday they have arrested two former officials of the Federal Emergency Management Agency and the former president of a major disaster relief contractor, accusing them of bribery and fraud in the efforts to restore electricity to Puerto Rico in the wake of Hurricane Maria.
The National Hurricane Center and the Federal Emergency Management Agency are warning that Tropical Storm Dorian could become a category 2 hurricane by the time it makes landfall on the east coast of Florida over the Labor Day weekend.
President Donald Trump ripped the Puerto Rican government on Monday, calling its leadership “corrupt” and “incompetent” as tens of thousands of protesters take to the streets demanding Gov. Ricardo Rosselló’s resignation.
Many have questioned whether Red Sox Manager and Peurto Rican native Alex Cora will attend the White House ceremony when the World Series champs make the trip to D.C. next month.
Democrats, media figures, and pundits predicted over the last two years that many people would die as a result of President Donald Trump’s policies.
During Friday’s Democratic Weekly Address, Representative Nydia Velázquez (D-NY) stated “many” of the lives lost in Puerto Rico from Hurricane Maria “could have been saved if the Trump Administration had fully marshalled the resources of the federal government, but sadly,
Secretary of Housing and Urban Development Ben Carson and a delegation of administration officials traveled to Puerto Rico on Thursday.
On Saturday’s broadcast of MSNBC’s “AM Joy,” Washington Post columnist and MSNBC Contributor Jennifer Rubin stated President Trump has killed the people who died from Hurricane Maria in Puerto Rico two times, once by “neglect and oversight,” and the second time by
On Friday’s “PBS NewsHour,” New York Times columnist David Brooks criticized President Trump for his comments on the death toll in Puerto Rico from Hurricane Maria as “a lie where you render nearly 3,000 Americans invisible,” and “almost pathological.” Brooks said, “It
Sen. Heidi Heitkamp’s (D-ND) brother did not apologize for suggesting President Trump will help potential victims of Hurricane Florence because “they’re white,” and proceeded to explain why believes the president is a “racist.”
Rep. Nydia Velazquez (D-NY) blamed President Donald Trump for what she said was a spike in suicides across Puerto Rico after Hurricane Maria hit the territory in late 2017.
Rep. Nydia Velazquez (D-NY) said on Friday that Congress should set up a 9/11-style commission to look into President Trump’s response to Hurricane Maria.
Hurricane Florence may prove to be the ultimate test of the Trump Theorem: that the media care most about what he says, while the voters care most about what he does.
Rep. Luis Gutierrez (D-IL) implied on Thursday that President Donald Trump’s response to Hurricane Florence will be more “empathetic” and better than his response to Hurricane Maria because Trump “has a golf club in North Carolina.”
Congressional Hispanic Caucus Chair Rep. Michelle Lujan Grisham (D-NM) on Thursday evening declined President Donald Trump’s invitation to attend a Hispanic Heritage Month reception at the White House, claiming Trump has lied about Puerto Rico’s death toll after Hurricane Maria and “demonized and dehumanized the Hispanic community.”
On Thursday’s broadcast of CNN’s “New Day,” Representative Mark Sanford (R-SC) stated President Trump’s praise of the response to Hurricane Maria in Puerto Rico “doesn’t make a lot of sense.” Sanford added that he has seen “good input and good preparation,
Democrats and the media have hyped high estimates of Hurricane Maria’s death toll in Puerto Rico to link Trump to Hurricane Katrina.
President Donald Trump fired back on Thursday at media criticism over the updated hurricane death toll of Hurricane Maria in Puerto Rico.
On Tuesday’s broadcast of CNN’s “Situation Room,” Representative Gerry Connolly (D-VA) stated that he trembles at how well the government is organized to respond to Hurricane Florence in light of President Trump’s praise of the response to Hurricane Maria in
On Tuesday’s broadcast of CNN’s “Situation Room,” Representative Joaquin Castro (D-TX) stated that if President Trump thinks the federal government’s response to Hurricane Maria in Puerto Rico was successful, “we’re all in trouble, and especially the people in the Carolinas.”
Puerto Rico Governor Ricardo Rosselló announced Tuesday that he would sign an executive order revising the official death toll from last year’s Hurricane Maria to 2,975, based on numbers from a George Washington University study released earlier that day.
Leftist Latino advocacy groups plan to use the Hurrican Maria tragedy in Puerto Rico for anti-Trump campaign ahead of midterm elections.
Eight months after Hurricane Maria made landfall on the U.S. territory of Puerto Rico, the effort to restore the island continues. The federal government has obligated $2.2 billion in federal aid, and the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) and countless other contracted boots are still on the ground.
Puerto Rico Governor Ricardo Rossello Nevares asked federal taxpayers to pay $94 billion towards the island’s recovery from Hurricane Maria, then reportedly spent $100 million on Christmas bonuses for the territory’s government employees.
The U.S. Justice Department is reducing the huge backlog in the immigration courts by using video-streaming to enable U.S. judges in Puerto Rico to oversee cases in mainland courtrooms, despite the huge damage inflicted on the island by recent storms.
The Department of Interior is pushing back against media reports that there was any collusion between the agency and Montana-based Whitefish Energy, which has contracted with Puerto Rico to repair the island’s electronic grid taken out by Hurricane Maria last month.
The National Weather Service predicts a 55 to 65 percent chance of a La Niña this winter as cooling over the tropical Pacific and colder deep ocean waters is expected to cause a drier and warmer West Coast and a wetter and colder Mid-West and East Coast.
“I’d say it was probably the most difficult,” he acknowledged, calling the storm “worse than Katrina” and saying that “it was in many ways worse than anything people have ever seen.”
The U.S. military’s involvement in hurricane relief efforts has “slightly delayed” the deployment of additional American troops to Afghanistan, according to the Pentagon.
