It may be like ‘closing the barn door after the horse got out’ like my grandma used to say — however this article in The Washington Post, “Puerto Rico faces food-stamp crisis as Trump privately vents about federal aid to Hurricane Maria-battered island”, by Jeff Stein and Josh Dawsey is pointing directly at Donald Trump’s animus towards all things Puerto Rico and Puerto Rican and what he and his Republican hit-squad have already done.
This:
“A senior administration official with direct knowledge of the meeting described Trump’s stance: “He doesn’t want another single dollar going to the island.”
Read it again:
“A senior administration official with direct knowledge of the meeting described Trump’s stance: “He doesn’t want another single dollar going to the island.”
I’m glad to see some attention finally being paid to this — on twitter, by Democrats and pundits — however, folks on the island are already going without food.
What is worse — are the looming cuts to Medicaid and prescription drug benefits in September.
Just tweeted this response to Sen. Harris
I will have more to say in the days ahead. You may think this hashtag is too harsh: #TrumpPuertoRicanKiller
From my perspective — it is simply the truth.
Hurricane Maria was awful. ‘Humancane Trump’ is a deadly horror.