Posted on 10/03/2022 9:56:28 AM PDT by conservative98
President Joe Biden on Monday admitted the federal government was failing Puerto Rico, speaking as he left the White House to visit two weeks after Hurricane Fiona hit the island.
“I’m heading to Puerto Rico because they haven’t been taken very good care of,” Biden told reporters after exiting the White House.
Both the president and First Lady Jill Biden are traveling to Puerto Rico to get updates on the island’s recovery and help pack bags of food and essential items for residents still struggling after the Category 1 storm.
Over 120,000 residents are still without power, two weeks after the storm.
The president pointed to the previous Category 5 Hurricane Maria for devastating the island in 2017.
“They’re trying like hell to catch up from the last hurricane,” Biden said. “I want to see the state of affairs today and make sure we push everything we can.”
Biden also acknowledged the federal government was coming up short during an event with the Congressional Black Caucus on Saturday.
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Biden frequently criticized former President Donald Trump for failing to help Puerto Rico recover from Hurricane Maria, even though Trump visited the island after the storm.
“What did he do? Toss rolls of paper towels at them. He doesn’t have any real answers,” Biden said during a 2020 campaign drive-in car rally in Tampa.
(Excerpt) Read more at breitbart.com ...
Failure here....failure there...failure everywhere...Duh!
I thought they were sitting around waiting for someone to do all the cleanup and repairs from the storm years ago
The Dems want them to be a US state. We want them to be their own country. They are forever stuck in the limbo of US possession.
Yet another problem that our supposed "elites" refuse to solve.
What's the over/under between Puerto Rico sorting its problems vs. those in the Middle East?
So, are all the Puerto Rico baseball people, (like Alex Cora) going to bash Biden like they bashed Trump when they complained the federal aid to PR was enough and fast enough?
No, Baja has a bad land area to coastal lengtht ratio.
Alex Cora, Puerto Rico and Trump:
Red Sox manager to skip White House visit, citing Trump’s Puerto Rico hurricane response
https://www.cnn.com/2019/05/06/politics/red-sox-manager-white-house-visit-puerto-rico
In the Name of Puerto Rico: Red Sox Manager Alex Cora Will Not Be Going to the White House
https://www.thenation.com/article/archive/alex-cora-puerto-rico-red-sox-baseball-trump/
Red Sox’s Alex Cora won’t visit White House, citing Puerto Rico response
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/latino/red-sox-s-alex-cora-won-t-visit-white-house-n1002201
The semi-literate pedo strikes again.
but will baja tip over if we send too many people there?
That’s the media’s and Biden’s liberal spin and how it will be reported elsewhere. If Trump said the same words, the headlines would all be the same as Breitbart. Biden damns himself with his own words. 2 weeks - no help, just now going to see what they need, haven’t been much help, still haven’t caught up from the last one. In 2020 he said he had the real answers, who has been President for 2 years?
Every PR people I have met have been very nice and hard workers. It’s their government that needs to be overhauled from what I hear and read. Trump sent goods and money to PR by the boatload and the PR governor put it in warehouses and was probably selling it to enrich herself and her friends.
So Bidens solution is to cut a check to Puurto Rico for 60 million to fill their pockets.
He’s draining Gov. funds and any othr source of revenue.
If the pubbies were smart, which know they’ve not,they can compare Florida’s response and recovery to PR’s which we know from history will be abominable.
But they won’t unless DeSantis or Trump before the heavy lifting.
IMO, the very worst part of Katrina was letting all those school busses get flooded & destroyed-—
and NEVER USED to transport people away from the flood waters because “THEY WERE NOT AIR CONDITIONED”
The kids were transported every day for 9 months without ‘air conditioning’ in those busses.
The Mayor then tried to say “The busses were NOT prepared for such use.
ALL THE BUSSES WERE PREPPED FOR SCHOOL TO BEGIN ON MONDAY, when Katrina hit on Sunday.
HE LIED & LIED & LIED.
Biden says he will install chargers for EV’s “ALL ACROSS THE STATES-—all 35 of them”.
My wife has aunts uncles and cousins still living on the island: it’s a corrupt political poophole regardless of the party in power down there.
So they can start paying income tax?
I assume PR residents would overwhelmingly be EIC recipients.
That’s because he’s a RACIST!
They took very good care of themselves for many many years.
Now they want mega US dollars to compensate themselves for their many many years of graft and corruption. Jose Felatio
stated “ it is difficult work to continually embezzle funds without it being too blatant. Now the US needs to step up and give us the funds necessary to rebuild our electrical infrastructure. Which will, of course, be spread around the well placed officials until all have sated their thirst for US dollars.”
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