HUD withholding $18 Billion in authorized aid to Puerto Rico

[essentialsaltes]

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The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development is withholding an additional $8 billion in unmet needs disaster relief from Puerto Rico—two times the amount the department is already illegally delaying—and Congress wants answers.

The holdup of the additional money, which lawmakers recently discovered, is further stalling the island nation's ability to recover from Hurricanes Maria and Irma in 2017 and to prepare for future natural disasters.

In total, HUD is delaying the release of two tranches of aid worth roughly $18 billion that Congress appropriated for the U.S. territory. The money is a mixture of mitigation and unmet needs funds designed to upgrade infrastructure and help residents better embrace the effects of Mother Nature, such as hardening electrical grids or rebuilding homes, businesses and bridges in a stronger manner. But HUD fears the funds could fall victim to corruption.

HUD has illegally withheld—which the department has acknowledged—roughly $10 billion in mitigation funds from Puerto Rico for 3 months, money that is meant to beef up its infrastructure in anticipation of future devastating storms.

I need you to do us a favor, though. Die in a hurricane.

 

[SummerMadness]

America First! Right?

 

[Aldebaran]

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The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development is withholding an additional $8 billion in unmet needs disaster relief from Puerto Rico—two times the amount the department is already illegally delaying—and Congress wants answers.

The holdup of the additional money, which lawmakers recently discovered, is further stalling the island nation's ability to recover from Hurricanes Maria and Irma in 2017 and to prepare for future natural disasters.

In total, HUD is delaying the release of two tranches of aid worth roughly $18 billion that Congress appropriated for the U.S. territory. The money is a mixture of mitigation and unmet needs funds designed to upgrade infrastructure and help residents better embrace the effects of Mother Nature, such as hardening electrical grids or rebuilding homes, businesses and bridges in a stronger manner. But HUD fears the funds could fall victim to corruption.

HUD has illegally withheld—which the department has acknowledged—roughly $10 billion in mitigation funds from Puerto Rico for 3 months, money that is meant to beef up its infrastructure in anticipation of future devastating storms.

I need you to do us a favor, though. Die in a hurricane.

How will the democrats in the House spin this one since the governor of Puerto Rico isn't running for president in 2020, and therefore not a "political rival"?
Someone once said, "You never let a serious crisis go to waste."

 

[HTacianas]

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The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development is withholding an additional $8 billion in unmet needs disaster relief from Puerto Rico—two times the amount the department is already illegally delaying—and Congress wants answers.

The holdup of the additional money, which lawmakers recently discovered, is further stalling the island nation's ability to recover from Hurricanes Maria and Irma in 2017 and to prepare for future natural disasters.

In total, HUD is delaying the release of two tranches of aid worth roughly $18 billion that Congress appropriated for the U.S. territory. The money is a mixture of mitigation and unmet needs funds designed to upgrade infrastructure and help residents better embrace the effects of Mother Nature, such as hardening electrical grids or rebuilding homes, businesses and bridges in a stronger manner. But HUD fears the funds could fall victim to corruption.

HUD has illegally withheld—which the department has acknowledged—roughly $10 billion in mitigation funds from Puerto Rico for 3 months, money that is meant to beef up its infrastructure in anticipation of future devastating storms.

I need you to do us a favor, though. Die in a hurricane.

Someone needs to find out what became of all of the previous aid to Puerto Rico. Simply sending billions of dollars into a black hole isn't helping anyone.

 

[civilwarbuff]

Unfortunately PR is run like a 3rd world banana republic and far too many in DC simply turn a blind eye to all the corruption.....

 

[FreeinChrist]

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The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development is withholding an additional $8 billion in unmet needs disaster relief from Puerto Rico—two times the amount the department is already illegally delaying—and Congress wants answers.

The holdup of the additional money, which lawmakers recently discovered, is further stalling the island nation's ability to recover from Hurricanes Maria and Irma in 2017 and to prepare for future natural disasters.

In total, HUD is delaying the release of two tranches of aid worth roughly $18 billion that Congress appropriated for the U.S. territory. The money is a mixture of mitigation and unmet needs funds designed to upgrade infrastructure and help residents better embrace the effects of Mother Nature, such as hardening electrical grids or rebuilding homes, businesses and bridges in a stronger manner. But HUD fears the funds could fall victim to corruption.

HUD has illegally withheld—which the department has acknowledged—roughly $10 billion in mitigation funds from Puerto Rico for 3 months, money that is meant to beef up its infrastructure in anticipation of future devastating storms.

I need you to do us a favor, though. Die in a hurricane.

Key phrase here - "has illegally withheld."