Two years after Hurricane Maria, Trump administration continues to block Puerto Rico aid

It is the second anniversary of Hurricane Maria's devastation of Puerto Rico.

Of the $8.3 billion in redevelopment funds Congress appropriated to assist Puerto Rico with recovery and redevelopment, money to be disbursed through the Department of Housing and Urban Development, the administration has distributed less than $2 billion.

Two full years after the hurricane made landfall on American soil.

As The Hill notes, the Trump administration recently missed the Sept. 4 deadline to allocate those funds—while meeting the same deadlines for California, Texas, Louisiana, Georgia, and the similarly impacted U.S. Virgin Islands. It's just Puerto Rico that's having that hurricane aid withheld, which suggests this is not mere administration incompetence at work.

But Puerto Rico has been waiting for two years. And counting.