White House chief of staff John Kelly said Thursday that President Trump was correct when he tweeted in the morning that federal officials and the military will not be in Puerto Rico “forever.”

Trump’s tweet was criticized by Democrats and the press as a sign that Trump was about to pull federal resources from the hurricane recovery effort on the U.S. island territory.

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