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Remember that hurricane (Maria) a while back that did some damage to Puerto Rico? It\u2019s been \u2013 what? Almost 4 years now? One local TV reporter, who has family down there, went there right away, reported on local things from there, and spent some quality in her old neighborhood doing fix-ups for her family and their neighbors.<\/p>\n
But then, why was AOC\u2019s granny down there in the \u201cisland of tropical breezes\u201d not getting her home repaired after all this time? And when someone started a Go Fund Me fundraiser to fix the place, AOC\u2019s brilliant mind decided that Granny\u2019s house should not be repaired with \u201cthat money\u201d.<\/p>\n
https:\/\/www.yahoo.com\/news\/wing-writer-crowdfunded-100-000-145942340.html<\/a><\/p>\n There\u2019s a video of that discussion here:\u00a0 https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=R551f-3tpJQ<\/a><\/p>\n In addition, when Cortes whined publicly that her granny\u2019s house hadn\u2019t been repaired, because the Trump administration had not sent money down there for rebuilding, she lied her ass off about it. If Grandma\u2019s house is still in disrepair, why doesn\u2019t this mendacious chica puta dig into her own bank account and fix it? After all, she has two apartments and a house and a fat bank account, so what is she waiting for? She can\u2019t take money out of her very own pocket to fix Granny\u2019s roof?<\/p>\n https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/politics\/aoc-photo-grandmothers-home-puerto-rico-trump-blocked-relief<\/a><\/p>\n So, whether or not that elderly woman has actually had the repairs made to her home remains to be seen. Apparently, it needs a new roof, but after three-plus years, you\u2019d think that might have been addressed, right? Yeah, if a high wind damages my roof, I\u2019m right on the phone with my agent, HO coverage in hand, and the estimate will be available on the spot. That\u2019s how you do things if you have a working brain cell or two.<\/p>\n AOC\u2019s whine has been that Trump did not release the funds for repairs in Puerto Rico. That is a complete lie.<\/p>\n Funding through HUD was released in January 2020: https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2020\/01\/15\/796658767\/months-after-blowing-deadline-trump-administration-lifts-hold-on-puerto-rico-aid<\/a><\/p>\n From the article: The Trump administration is releasing its hold on billions of dollars of aid to Puerto Rico after a months-long delay. But it is still unclear exactly when those funds will reach the hurricane-ravaged island.<\/p>\n The tranche of money, more than $8 billion, is allocated through a Department of Housing and Urban Development disaster recovery fund. It was supposed to be released months ago to help the island rebuild in the wake of devastating Hurricanes Irma and Maria in 2017.<\/p>\n So far $1.5 billion in HUD aid<\/a> has been made available, of which Puerto Rico has drawn approximately $11 million, according to a HUD spokesperson. In all, Congress has approved roughly $20 billion in long-term rebuilding aid to Puerto Rico that HUD is mandated to disburse. <\/em>article<\/p>\n Other funding to the tune of $13 billions for the PR was released through FEMA in September 2020:\u00a0 https:\/\/thehill.com\/homenews\/administration\/517073-trump-administration-announces-13-billion-in-aid-to-puerto-rico<\/a><\/p>\n Originally, funding for \u201cthat lovely island, island of tropical breezes\u201d was released in 2018<\/em> but was mismanaged by PR officials: https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2018\/11\/12\/politics\/trump-puerto-rico\/index.html<\/a><\/p>\n That was the cause of the delay on FEMA funding.<\/p>\n From the article: In February, Puerto Rico received $16 billion in federal aid under a disaster relief package signed by Trump.<\/p>\n The funding for the devastated island was part of a $90 billion package agreed upon by Senate leaders as part a two-year budget deal to avert a government shutdown. The relief deal covered a number of major disasters across the US, including Hurricanes Maria, Irma and Harvey, and wildfires in California. – article<\/p>\n You may remember the governor of Puerto Rico grandstanding herself in front of pallets of water that were shipped down there for relief, as if she\u2019s the one who bought all that stuff.<\/p>\n Perhaps someone should ask the PR government, if they feel so neglected, should we maybe reopen the US Navy base at Roosevelt Roads and bring back the cash that sailors and Marines spent ashore?<\/p>\n Or would they prefer that we just release them from the designation of US Territory and let them go their own way?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"