We start with a quick follow-up on something I mentioned last time, that Puerto Rico was still waiting for billions of dollars in aid authorized by Congress for relief in the wake of Hurricanes Irma and Maria in 2017.It seems that Tweetie-pie has finally been pressured enough that on January 15 he released $16 billion of that amount - but only with conditions attached that appear intended to continue to sabotage the relief and repair.
For one, there is a ban on paying Puerto Rico's minimum wage, $15 an hour, on the projects the federal money funds. What's more, none of the money can be used to restore the island's power grid.
Laughably, these are claimed to be "anti-corruption" measures - because, obviously, paying the local minimum wage is corrupt.
So even after they ran out of stalls, the white supremacists populating the White House still searched out for ways to make it hard for Puerto Rico to recover.
As Hunter, a staff writer at Daily Kos noted, "The reasons for these acts can only be speculated on but are not, in the slightest, hard to imagine."
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