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But, you know...it's all Trumps fault things aren't going well there. Doesn't matter that relief materials were being hoarded or that relief food was found in the garbage.
https://theintercept.com/2018/01/10/puerto-rico-electricity-prepa-hurricane-maria/
I thought about putting this in the "International Politics" forum as a play off of Trump's Virgin Island President comment but it probably would't have been figure out.
https://theintercept.com/2018/01/10/puerto-rico-electricity-prepa-hurricane-maria/
ON SATURDAY, A day after becoming aware of a massive store of rebuilding materials being held by the Puerto Rico Electric Power Authority, the U.S. federal government — the Federal Emergency Management Agency, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, along with their security detail — entered a Palo Seco warehouse owned by the public utility to claim and distribute the equipment, according to a spokesperson for the Corps.
Rumors of a tense standoff had been circulating on the island, but the encounter was confirmed to The Intercept in a statement from the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers. Asked if the federal officers were armed when they entered the warehouse, USACE spokesperson Luciano Vera said they were indeed accompanied by security detail and quickly began distributing the material after seizing it. Vera declined to say whether there was a confrontation at the entrance, saying only that PREPA officials ultimately toured the warehouse along with the feds:
I thought about putting this in the "International Politics" forum as a play off of Trump's Virgin Island President comment but it probably would't have been figure out.