When you have your breakfast, lunch or dinner today — count your blessings. Unless we mobilize and apply pressure on the U.S. Senate, far too many of our fellow citizens in Puerto Rico will soon be looking at empty plates and pantries.
We are well over a million voices strong here at Daily Kos. We can make a difference.
Senator Chuck Schumer (D-NY) tweeted this on Friday:
Trump to Puerto Ricans: Go Hungry
The clock ticks for Puerto Rico’s poor since the Trump administration has announced it won’t support supplemental funding for the storm-ravaged island’s food stamps program.
Emergency food aid for an estimated 1.4 million Puerto Ricans will dry up at the start of March if a $600 million appropriation isn’t approved by Congress and the White House. Without the additional funding, about 1.3 million U.S. citizens will face a steep drop in food assistance. Roughly 100,000 will be kicked off program entirely, according to an analysis by the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities (CBPP).
Attempts by congressional Democrats to secure the emergency funding have been blocked by a White House hell bent on building a border wall. The compromise spending bill signed by Trump last week will keep the government open, but does not include any disaster aid for Puerto Rico.
The House has already approved the funding. The fate of Puerto Ricans now lies with the Senate.
Please retweet, share, get the word out to your social networks, and call your Senators.
Am posting more tweets here — which you can amplify by retweeting:
We have a large group of Senators who are running for POTUS — all of whom have loads of followers and a national platform. Get them to use it!
Here’s what I tweeted earlier:
Compose a tweet. Make a facebook post. But most importantly — pick up the phone and call your Senators. Leave a message. Send them emails. Call back on Monday.
Don’t stop calling!