https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/post-politics/wp/2017/10/12/trump-warns-puerto-rico-we-cannot-keep-fema-the-military-the-first-responders-forever/?hpid=hp_hp-top-table-main_trump-puertorico-805a%3Ahomepage%2Fstory&utm_term=.7e1471557e63
President Trump served notice Thursday that he may pull back federal relief workers from Puerto Rico, effectively threatening to abandon the U.S. territory amid a staggering humanitarian crisis in the aftermath of Hurricane Maria.
Declaring the U.S. territory's electrical grid and infrastructure to have been a “disaster before hurricanes,” Trump wrote Thursday that it will be up to Congress how much federal money to appropriate to the island for its recovery efforts and that recovery workers will not stay “forever.”
In a trio of tweets, Trump wrote” “We cannot keep FEMA, the Military & the First Responders, who have been amazing (under the most difficult circumstances) in P.R. forever!”
Three weeks since Maria made landfall, much of Puerto Rico, an island of 3.4 million people, the vast majority of the island remains without power. Residents struggle to find clean water, hospitals are running short on medicine and commerce is slow with many businesses closed.
There is a special place in hell reserved for this asshole.
In the meantime, I really hope the Democrats are on it. We can help some of these people and pick up a lot of new Democratic voters.
Dem Party boss distributes aid in Puerto Rico ahead of Trump visit
http://thehill.com/homenews/administration/353600-dem-party-boss-distributes-aid-in-puerto-rico-ahead-of-trump-visit
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