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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsAfter four years of screwing and dumping on Puerto Rico trump tries to buy their votes
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Today, I announced two of the LARGEST grants in history to Puerto Rico to rebuild its electrical grid system and education system. My Administration will be awarding $13 BILLION through FEMA the largest obligations of funding ever awarded...
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After four years of screwing and dumping on Puerto Rico trump tries to buy their votes (Original Post)
spanone
Sep 2020
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marble falls
(57,010 posts)1. He even upgraded the paper towels to HandiWipes.
spanone
(135,791 posts)3. Bwaahahahahaaa...I doubt it
way too generous for him...
chriscan64
(1,789 posts)2. "We wouldn't have waited so long..."
"except we were waiting to see if the Greenland trade fell through."
North Shore Chicago
(3,303 posts)4. Let's get
2 Senators! Statehood for Puerto Rico!
Statistical
(19,264 posts)5. Yes. statehood for PR and DC!
North Shore Chicago
(3,303 posts)6. Yes!
njhoneybadger
(3,910 posts)7. Puerto Rico has a population larger than 20 states!
gulliver
(13,168 posts)8. Great! Now that they've got that money they don't need to vote for Trump or Republicans anymore.
Puerto Rican voters in the states can avenge Trump's letting Puerto Rico suffer all this time and get the grant money and get a Dem president to make things even better going forward.
struggle4progress
(118,228 posts)9. Puerto Rico can't vote for President or Congress
And Trump is blowing smoke: he's not planning to send them any more money, just playing the rest of everybody for suckers
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