An investigation into the Trump administration’s delay in sending nearly $20 billion in hurricane relief to Puerto Rico showed officials in the White House purposely blocked funds from reaching the devastated U.S. territory and obstructed the investigation itself.
According to the Department of Housing and Urban Development’s Office of Inspector General report, recovery funding for Puerto Rico, where nearly 3,000 people died after Hurricane Maria struck, was “unnecessarily delayed by bureaucratic obstacles.”
Trump-appointed Inspector General Rae Oliver Davis report said that the administration used stalling tactics to avoid the investigation.
According to the Department of Housing and Urban Development’s Office of Inspector General report, recovery funding for Puerto Rico, where nearly 3,000 people died after Hurricane Maria struck, was “unnecessarily delayed by bureaucratic obstacles.”
Trump-appointed Inspector General Rae Oliver Davis report said that the administration used stalling tactics to avoid the investigation.
- 4/22/2021
- by Peter Wade
- Rollingstone.com
One hundred thousand people are dead. There is no effective federal plan to control a pandemic for which there remains no cure, nor help the nation recover from it. President Trump is engaged in a daily exercise in willful failure, ridding his government of inspectors general and obfuscating his own negligence. In a job that typically helps lead the nation in moments of grief, this president opts to tweet and golf, needing to be pressured to finally lower the flag to half-staff last week. It is no surprise that so...
- 5/27/2020
- by Jamil Smith
- Rollingstone.com
Late last month, Puerto Rican officials raised the death toll from Hurricane Maria from 64 to nearly 3,000. The storm which struck last summer, ravaged the island’s electrical grid and left thousands homeless and without water and other supplies. The Trump administration’s response was sharply criticized, and now, as Hurricane Florence bears down on the East Coast, the president is touting the job he did. Speaking from the White House on Tuesday, the Trump called the response “incredibly successful,” an “unsung success” and “one of the best jobs that’s...
- 9/12/2018
- by Ryan Bort
- Rollingstone.com
President Donald Trump’s press conference to update on U.S. plans to prepare for what could be a category 5 Hurricane Florence has created its own weather pattern after he referenced the federal government’s response to Hurricane Maria in Puerto Rico last year as “incredibly successful.”
His comments come as Florence gains speed in the Atlantic Ocean and is expected to make landfall on the eastern seaboard early Friday morning. More than 1 million people in the coastal cities of North Carolina, South Carolina and Virginia are under mandatory evacuation orders owing to the expected storm surge and winds, with 20-30 inches of rain expected. Flooding danger is expected into next week from Pennsylvania to Georgia.
But most of the takeaway from the preparedness presser at the Oval Office with Trump and Fema Administrator Brock Long was via Trump’s response to questions about Hurricane Maria and Puerto Rico, where...
His comments come as Florence gains speed in the Atlantic Ocean and is expected to make landfall on the eastern seaboard early Friday morning. More than 1 million people in the coastal cities of North Carolina, South Carolina and Virginia are under mandatory evacuation orders owing to the expected storm surge and winds, with 20-30 inches of rain expected. Flooding danger is expected into next week from Pennsylvania to Georgia.
But most of the takeaway from the preparedness presser at the Oval Office with Trump and Fema Administrator Brock Long was via Trump’s response to questions about Hurricane Maria and Puerto Rico, where...
- 9/11/2018
- by Patrick Hipes
- Deadline Film + TV
Slowly, the truth is coming out. A new study by George Washington University’s Milken Institute School of Public Health has found that Hurricane Maria killed far more people in Puerto Rico than initially thought. The findings attribute an estimated 2,975 deaths to the storm from September 2017 through February 2018.
This is a long way from 64, which was the official government estimate in the months after the storm. And it more or less supports a recent study published in the New England Journal of Medicine, which suggested a range of deaths, from...
This is a long way from 64, which was the official government estimate in the months after the storm. And it more or less supports a recent study published in the New England Journal of Medicine, which suggested a range of deaths, from...
- 8/28/2018
- by Jeff Goodell
- Rollingstone.com
Trevor Noah, Lee Daniels, Eddie Huang, Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand, Gretchen Carlson, and Michael Strahan are among the subjects of PBS half-hour interview series Breaking Big‘s inaugural season, debuting Friday, June 15 at 8:30 Pm, the public broadcasting service announced this morning.
The series, first announced one year ago this month, sets out to interview well-known figures who took an “unexpected journey” to success in their fields.
“The conceit of the whole show is we’re living in unusual times,” series creator/host Carlos Watson told Deadline, saying the list was picked based on finding people who took “unconventional paths” to fame.
The first-season subject list is thick with media figures [full list below]. “I guess I hadn’t thought about it that way; maybe it speaks to the growing centrality of media in our country” Watson said, explaining he thinks of The Daily Show host Trevor Noah, whose interview kicks off the series,...
The series, first announced one year ago this month, sets out to interview well-known figures who took an “unexpected journey” to success in their fields.
“The conceit of the whole show is we’re living in unusual times,” series creator/host Carlos Watson told Deadline, saying the list was picked based on finding people who took “unconventional paths” to fame.
The first-season subject list is thick with media figures [full list below]. “I guess I hadn’t thought about it that way; maybe it speaks to the growing centrality of media in our country” Watson said, explaining he thinks of The Daily Show host Trevor Noah, whose interview kicks off the series,...
- 5/9/2018
- by Lisa de Moraes
- Deadline Film + TV
New York Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand announced that she will bring one of President Donald Trump’s biggest critics San Juan Mayor Carmen Yulín Cruz as her guest to his first State of the Union address tonight.
“It is an honor to announce that Mayor @CarmenYulinCruz of San Juan, Puerto Rico will join me at the #Sotu. Throughout the crisis in Puerto Rico, Mayor Cruz has shown extraordinary leadership and fearless advocacy for her city,” Gillibrand tweeted on Jan. 29. “I hope Mayor Cruz’s presence at #Sotu will remind the president and my colleagues in Congress of our urgent responsibility to...
“It is an honor to announce that Mayor @CarmenYulinCruz of San Juan, Puerto Rico will join me at the #Sotu. Throughout the crisis in Puerto Rico, Mayor Cruz has shown extraordinary leadership and fearless advocacy for her city,” Gillibrand tweeted on Jan. 29. “I hope Mayor Cruz’s presence at #Sotu will remind the president and my colleagues in Congress of our urgent responsibility to...
- 1/30/2018
- by Thatiana Diaz
- PEOPLE.com
The mayor of San Juan, Carmen Yulín Cruz had strong words for President Trump early Jan. 12. After sources revealed the commander-in-chief called Haiti, El Salvador and African countries “s–tholes” during a bipartisan debate over immigration, the mayor clapped back on Twitter.
“No Trump we are not lazy or ingrates. While you golf we make sure we survive despite your efforts to put us down we will rise,” she wrote.
No Trump we are not lazy or ingrates. While you golf we make sure we survive despite your efforts to put us down we will rise.
— Carmen Yulín Cruz (@CarmenYulinCruz) January 12, 2018
https://platform.
“No Trump we are not lazy or ingrates. While you golf we make sure we survive despite your efforts to put us down we will rise,” she wrote.
No Trump we are not lazy or ingrates. While you golf we make sure we survive despite your efforts to put us down we will rise.
— Carmen Yulín Cruz (@CarmenYulinCruz) January 12, 2018
https://platform.
- 1/12/2018
- by Frances Solá-Santiago
- PEOPLE.com
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