People write sometime how don't to know.
They missed the deadline. 9/4/19 was the deadline. The deadline wasn't giving them aid ,but notifying them
HUD was supposed to deliver funding notices to 18 states hit by natural disasters by Sept. 4. It successfully published all the notices except for the one for Puerto Rico. The notice’s publication would have allowed the territory to begin crafting a plan to help manage the disaster relief funds.
They held up the process because, they say, of concerns over corruption and such. Not that anybody would ever begin to think that maybe, just maybe, some of the funds previously disbursed were somehow misused or mishandled.
Oh, wait. That was part of the scandal over the summer, a freaking huge part, with billions of dollars in Maria aid both misused and mishandled. New governor was in place less than a month before, and part of what she said she'd be doing is reviewing every single contract.
When she was tapped to be the appointed replacement governor, there were allegations that she, too, had been corrupt.
Moreover, HUD said that they would be missing the deadline weeks before the deadline, precisely because of the corruption scandal, the need to review, and the need to make sure that the funds would be properly handled. In other words, it was public knowledge. Nobody objected, because, well, everybody remembered the corruption scandal from 4 weeks before. They don't remember the corruption scandal now that it's been 13-15 weeks. So we have evidence for how the collective memory decays around here. If we're reminded about it in the last 3 weeks or so, we still remember it. Don't remind us for 12 weeks, and it's like it never happened.
It also affected the USVI. Not that anybody cares about them. It's almost like they're not American citizens or part of the US.
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