Tag: Puerto Rico

Cindy Sanford sifts through the debris while retrieving personal items after a tornado destroyed her home in Beauregard, Ala., Tuesday, March 5, 2019.

Republican trio meets with Trump to talk disaster aid impasse

Colin Wilhelm · April 11, 2019 8:06 pm

A Puerto Rican national flag is shown amid debris after a hurricane.

Beltway Confidential

This archaic, cronyist law hurts all Americans, but especially Puerto Rico

Daniel Garza · April 10, 2019 4:26 pm

Soldiers and National Guard organize aid for the Santa Ana community in the aftermath of Hurricane Maria in Guayama, Puerto Rico, Thursday, Oct. 5, 2017.

Washington Secrets

Pushback: White House cites $91 billion for Puerto Rico, hits corruption, incompetence

Paul Bedard · April 3, 2019 7:20 pm

Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., arrives to speak.

Senate Democrats want $1.1B for Puerto Rico

Susan Ferrechio · April 2, 2019 11:36 pm

Deputy White House press secretary Hogan Gidley accompanies White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders as she arrives to speak to the media during the daily press briefing at the White House, Tuesday, Dec. 18, 2018, in Washington.

White House’s Hogan Gidley twice refers to Puerto Rico as ‘that country’

John Gage · April 2, 2019 8:14 pm

Puerto Rican and American flags line the Moscoso bridge in San Juan, P.R., July 5, 1998, symbolically linking the United States and its Spanish-speaking commonwealth.

Beltway Confidential

Puerto Rico is America and disaster aid will help make it great again

Erin Dunne · April 2, 2019 3:25 pm

President Donald Trump talks about recovery efforts after he and first lady Melania Trump arrived at Luis Muniz Air National Guard Base to survey hurricane damage, Tuesday, Oct. 3, 2017, in San Juan, Puerto Rico, as Puerto Rico Gov. Ricardo RossellÃ³, left, looks on.

Trump claims he’s ‘the best thing’ to happen to Puerto Rico

Caitlin Yilek · April 2, 2019 12:39 pm

Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa, pauses for a reporter as he leaves the Capitol.

Senate GOP targets 2020 Democrats on disaster relief block

Susan Ferrechio · April 1, 2019 10:22 pm

Puerto Rico Gov. Ricardo Rossello speaks during a press conference regarding the number of estimated deaths in the aftermath of Hurricane Maria, in San Juan, Puerto Rico, Tuesday, Aug. 28, 2018. Rossello has raised the island's official death toll from Maria from 64 to 2,975 after an independent study found that the number of people who succumbed after the storm had been severely undercounted.

Beltway Confidential

Puerto Rico Gov. Ricardo Rossello would have a very bad time if he punched Trump

Tom Rogan · March 29, 2019 10:02 am

Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump speaks during a rally at the Fox Theater, Wednesday, June 15, 2016, in Atlanta.

Trump says he has ‘taken better care of Puerto Rico than any man ever’

Emily Ward · March 28, 2019 9:25 pm

Puerto Rico Governor Ricardo Rossello endorses Florida Democratic gubernatorial candidate Andrew Gillum at a campaign rally Monday Oct. 1, 2018, in Kissimmee, Fla.

‘I’ll punch the bully in the mouth,’ Puerto Rico governor warns White House amid disaster aid quarrel

Katelyn Caralle · March 28, 2019 4:40 pm

Montones Beach in Isabela, Puerto Rico, is shown on Wednesday, March 16, 2014.

Bipartisan pair introduces Puerto Rico statehood bill in Congress

Daniel Jativa · March 28, 2019 3:24 pm