Trump repeats relief funding lie as Tropical Storm Dorian approaches Puerto Rico
The president claims $92 billion has been distributed to Puerto Rico. It's only been a fraction of that.
Zack Ford
Aug 27, 2019, 3:05 pm Updated: Aug 27, 2019, 3:25 pm
President Donald Trump is already trying to avoid responsibility for providing relief aid to Puerto Rico for a storm that hasn’t even impacted the island yet. In a tweet Tuesday, Trump repeated a lie that the island territory has already received far more aid than it actually had, and seemed to blame Puerto Rico for its own fate.
“Will it ever end?” Trump wrote, seemingly speaking more about the relief costs than the catastrophic weather. “Congress approved 92 Billion Dollars for Puerto Rico last year, an all time record of its kind for ‘anywhere’.”
https://thinkprogress.org/trump-repeats-relief-funding-lie-as-tropical-storm-dorian-approaches-puerto-rico-3545a3b41091/
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Earlier this year, Trump claimed that Puerto Rico had received $91 billion, so he seems to have inflated the number by a billion. But his claim that Puerto Rico had already received that much money, or that it had otherwise been spent — as insinuated again by his tweet Tuesday — is demonstrably false. The federal government’s own records tell a very different story.
It’s true that Congress has allocated a large sum of money, but that was still only around $42 billion — $50 billion short of Trump’s latest number.................................
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Hey media next time this jerk is standing out on the south portico getting ready to take-off.................ask him where did he come up with this LIE.......................hold him accountable.........................keep calling him a LIAR, to his face......................
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