Trump tried to illegally withhold disaster relief money from Puerto Rico and give it to TX and FL

[Demovictory9]

https://www.vox.com/2019/1/17/18186818/trump-puerto-rico-hurricane-funds

Trump tried to illegally withhold disaster relief money from Puerto Rico
Trump’s handling of his one big external crisis remains terrifying.
By Matthew Yglesias@[email protected] Jan 17, 2019, 1:00pm

A Washington Post article on the resignation of deputy Housing and Urban Development Secretary Pam Patenaude, a housing policy professional who’s been de facto running the department under the vague auspices of Ben Carson, also contains the stunning information that President Trump attempted to illegally cut off federal disaster assistance to the island of Puerto Rico.

We already knew that in October, Trump tweeted — inaccurately — that the Puerto Rican government was planning to use disaster relief money to pay off old debts.

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But the new report says Trump went beyond bad tweets and tried to base policy on this misapprehension, urging his team to violate the law and redirect the disaster assistance money to Texas and Florida instead

A Washington Post article on the resignation of deputy Housing and Urban Development Secretary Pam Patenaude, a housing policy professional who’s been de facto running the department under the vague auspices of Ben Carson, also contains the stunning information that President Trump attempted to illegally cut off federal disaster assistance to the island of Puerto Rico.

We already knew that in October, Trump tweeted — inaccurately — that the Puerto Rican government was planning to use disaster relief money to pay off old debts.

But the new report says Trump went beyond bad tweets and tried to base policy on this misapprehension, urging his team to violate the law and redirect the disaster assistance money to Texas and Florida instead

[OrlandoDem2]

1. And yet there are people from PR who actually voted for pols like Rick Scott who supports Trump

at every turn. Grrrrrrrr!!!!’

This is all corrupt. I’m a Floridian and I know how bad the hurricanes have been. But it was bad in PR too. How about fix TX, FL AND PR??? They’re all American states/territory!

[malaise]

2. Just

ITTMF!

[steffanwalker0404]

3. All are corrupt

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They all are corrupt out there. For them everything is just a way of making fast money as everyone out there such as DollarSprout, FinancePolice or SavetheStudent is doing.

[Eliot Rosewater]

4. all?