By Seung Min Kim , Seung Min Kim White House reporter Email Bio Follow Josh Dawsey and Josh Dawsey Reporter covering the White House Email Bio Follow Paul Kane Paul Kane Senior congressional correspondent and columnist Email Bio Follow March 26 at 4:35 PM President Trump complained in a private lunch Tuesday with Senate Republicans about the amount of disaster aid designated for Puerto Rico, as lawmakers prepare for a standoff over funds for the island still struggling to recover in the...
Trump noted to GOP senators that Texas — also battered by a spate of hurricanes — was awarded $29 billion in aid while South Carolina got $1.5 billion to recover from their own storms. Trump then questioned why Puerto Rico was getting $91 billion in aid, according to two people familiar with his comments, indicating that this was too much compared to states on the mainland.
Congress has appropriated nearly $20 billion in HUD disaster relief funds for Puerto Rico, only $1.5 billion of which has been approved for spending. But Democratic leaders have already panned the GOP bill as insufficient. House Appropriations Committee Chairman Nita M. Lowey and her Senate counterpart, Patrick J. Leahy said the legislation “does not adequately address the needs of the American citizens of Puerto Rico and other territories.”
vt_beer StephenKing mikebarnicle GMA AlexCora and RedSox care more about discover_PR moreso than realDonaldTrump ever did, does, or, will
BS
My complaint is that realDonaldTrump has no business being POTUS.
Let me guess this story is from an 'anonymous source'
Those brown people are getting to much money right fat boy for you and the GOP it always comes down to brown people taking our money
realDonaldTrump Well, you got too much Russian help to Get elected!
Why send heavy funds to an island where politians run the government into a $74B budget deficit.
Hey big T , I wish you spend our money and efforts at home instead of worrying about the Golan H. What happened to America First?Puerto Rico belongs to us,check it out .
And that money is lining the pockets of crooked politicians in Puerto Rico instead of it helping the citizens
people of color don't get the dollar.
He’s an embarrassment to Humanity
This is his victory lap, piling on Puerto Rico & trying again to kill Obama care. He forgot last election losing the house to the DEMs? Let him continue pulling shit like this. It will get him kicked out of WH Jan 2021.
WHAT?!! 😠😠😠😠😠😠
They are American Citizens!
SHITHOLE_POTUS
That’s because he wants to funnel money to his infamous wall.
Liar
He should be ashamed of himself.the island is also part of the USA.
Some days a blue tie - others red....
Trump is his own worst enemy.
Pure vindictiveness- this man is not a leader and should be removed from office through the vote with which he knows Russia attempted to interfere.
Twitler: “Dammit, Mitch. They still won’t give me their beaches.” McConnell: “Don’t worry. We’ll starve them more.”
let the person live there for a week...see what happens..if only that could be so
A-hole
What a great heart. Ha ha.
Oh, Trump and his Mar-a-Lago cronies must want to buy another private island so they want to steal more of our money that provides hurricane relief. Make Puerto Rico whole and give them independence if they cost the U.S. too much afterwards. MakePuretoRicoWhole it's our duty.
Trump still steamed about his bankrupt resort there.
Of course he hates anyone that is not a white nationalist.
These are American citizens and deserving of hurricane relief. Just because they don't live in affluent areas of the mainland does not mean they are not worthy of it. God, WEST SIDE STORY came out-what-60 yrs ago? Surely as a New Yorker it should have registered they are American
Slime ball.
The communist democrat party wants to steal the funds
Just wait, Nebraska.....it will happen here too. Don't kid yourself. realDonaldTrump doesn't care about us either.
No there not trump you get paid to much
Say goodbye to any meaningful Government action over the next two years realDonaldTrump might as well spend his days on golf courses and nights rallying for 2020 the TheDemocrats need to get all their policies through the House ready for implementation after 2020
Getting pretty sick of these old privileged white men.
Cut your weekend golf trips.
Seriously
He's such a jerk. Amazing how so many people support him. What does it say about them? Cult45
Will no one rid us of these callous bastards. I’m so sick and tired of being sick and tired of this orange malevolence raping our country. I’ve never looked forward to someone’s funeral more than I do now.
Ridiculous. He is disgusting...but send money to build unnecessary border wall.!
Good Lord... save us from this cancer upon humanity.
So disaster relief is based on fealty to trumplethinskin? Trump: I've told FEMA to give Alabama 'the A Plus treatment'
How about some context, like how terribly PR is run (by Democrats) and just expect to keep getting funding instead of pivoting to improved resilience to begin with. He’s made the same argument about, for example, California.
HYPOCRITE
There is no bottom. Huge hurricane huge agenda to fix. He is clueless and he intends to stay that way. PR hurt his image to many people died.
Puerto Rico getting too much hurricane relief? Seriously? Sounds like white nationalist, racist Donald trump is again speaking to his white nationalist followers.
It's time4 TheDemocrats SpeakerPelosi LeaderHoyer SenSchumer JulianCastro SenAmyKlobuchar Castro gillibrandny GovInslee CoryBooker BetoORourke PeteButtigieg SenWarren SenKamalaHarris 2 push2make PuertoRicoPUR our51st State so they've representation in Congress.
Yes, does anybody realize that Wyoming has never received a Pence of Hurricane Relief Funds! It’s all in Hillary’s hidden emails, and the Post is blocking the story
Hideous!
Puerto Rico is a run down 3rd world nation with its hand out (like usual) to America. I don't care if they are 'Americans ' when 2/3rds of them were already on welfare before the hurricane. Who helps the US? Nobody, we are self reliant like everybody should be. dnc gop
Its not hurricane relief as much as its building a new country. Apple's to apples
And pay no federal tax. How crazy is that?
Full on evil unleashed.
Alright. If you don't want Congress to spend that money, then make personal cuts on your hairspray, fake tan, and golf courses.... that should just about take care of Puerto Rico and even a few third world countries.
Republicans double down on their “die quickly” 2020 campaign slogan.
So...he’s attacked kids, sick people, the press, politicians who disagree with him, and people of color.
Did he complain that they are breathing more than their fair share of air as well, or is he saving that for a Maga rally?
Trump is predictable. He gets a bit of a win (apparently) in the Barr interpretation of Mueller, and immediately spins nonsense about it and then takes full-on aim at both feet about Puerto Rico and healthcare. Obviously thinks the Mueller info has elected him dictator. Or Putin
I'd like to see he & McConnell dropped off & left in Puerto Rico for a month!
Because they are not 'fine people'?
Puerto Ricans need to be enfranchised with the vote for President. taxationwithoutrepresentation
Please stop the b.s. and lies. You are very dangerous. Stop taking things out of context
How are the Middle Class Tax Cuts coming along? More money in your pocket or Less? My retired parents aren’t too happy with their return and their monthly retirement check went up by a whole $2.
fakenews
Israel needs more US taxpayer money for the lovely condos in Tel Aviv and ILLEGAL settlements in the West bank.. those pesky Puerto Ricans should get their priorities sorted out. ' sheesh ' the audacity..
Rob from the poor to feed the rich.
I hope this is the push they need to become a state and the Grandmaster here is too stupid to realize it
🙀🙀🙀🙀🙀
He should visit then...and check it out himself and stop LYING!
Idiot!
You know what doesn’t help the humanitarian crisis in PR? Wasting money and supplies because of virtue signaling. A rule of the military is to never spend more than what’s needed.
He doesn't give a shit about Puerto Rico because none of them can vote for him and brown people aren't his base anyway.
Trump at is most despicable best, 'Puerto Rico is getting too much hurricane relief funding', well what are you going to do so-called President leave them to their fate.
'i should've thrown cheaper paper towels'
The next administration should see to it that, addition to hurricane relief funding, Puerto Rico receives reparations for what Trump and this country in general has done to them.
There is literally no bottom to his ignominious, political ineptitude.
Vengeance is Trumps oxygen.
Who threw hurricane supplies in dumpsters?
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