According to a new report from Axios, President Trump is considering stopping federal aid to Puerto Rico for its recovery from Hurricane Maria. Trump apparently believes that the island is using the relief money to pay off their debt. This, obviously, isn’t real, unlike Trump’s power to cut off aid, which could harm…
Some people believe that Donald Trump became the president of the United States when he ordered the military to strike a Syrian air base with 60 Tomahawk cruise missiles. Other people—idiots—believe that Trump became the President of the United States on January 20, 2017, when he was sworn in as President of the…
Today, in a radio interview with Geraldo Rivera, President Trump said he was an “absolute no” on statehood for Puerto Rico, attributing his reluctance to his dislike of San Juan’s mayor, Carmen Yulín Cruz, who has criticized the federal response to Hurricane Maria, the Washington Post reports.
On October 3, the American people will receive a test message from a previously unused presidential alert system designed to warn us about events like natural disasters, a terrorist attack, or other urgent national emergencies. The test was originally scheduled for Thursday, but has been pushed back by the Federal…
Federal Emergency Management Agency Administrator Brock Long is really bad at groveling for Trump to save his job.
As Hurricane Florence barrels toward the Carolinas today, Politico reports that the Trump administration’s Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) chief, Brock Long—you know, the guy tasked with brilliantly coordinating our response to natural disasters as well as we did in Puerto Rico—is under investigation into…
The Department of Homeland Security transferred $10 million from FEMA to ICE this summer to fund more immigrant detention centers along the border, according to a report on Rachel Maddow.
Nearly a year after Hurricane Maria devastated Puerto Rico, the fallout, devastation, and political shortcomings continue to take their toll. And the response has been nothing short of shameful.
The Washington Post reported on Monday afternoon that Corey Coleman, the former personnel chief of the Federal Emergency Management Administration (FEMA) who resigned last month, is under investigation for allegedly allowing a culture of widespread sexual harassment to flourish at the agency.
The Federal Emergency Management Agency has finally admitted what everyone already knew: that it was disastrously unprepared for last year’s hurricane season.
If you haven’t been reminded recently enough of how utterly evil this government is, buckle up: defense and security contractors are bringing in millions off of the Trump administration’s family separation policy.
Last week, the Trump-Pence administration met with FEMA officials to congratulate the agency on a successful 2017. They did not mention Puerto Rico once, where the death toll following Hurricane Maria is still a point of contention. Even as recent studies cite a number 70 percent higher than had been previously…
La semana pasada, la administración de Trump-Pence se reunió con representantes de la FEMA para felicitar a la agencia por un exitoso 2017. Ni una sola vez mencionaron Puerto Rico, donde el número de muertos tras el paso del huracán María todavía es un punto de debate. A pesar de que estudios recientes citan una…
President Donald Trump and his wife who virtually went missing for a month visited the headquarters of FEMA on Wednesday for a briefing about the 2018 hurricane season. This was presumably to avoid the series of missteps, incompetence, and utter lack of basic compassion that made last year’s hurricane season so…
With less than a day before the official start of hurricane season, Puerto Rico’s perpetually feeble power grid faces the possibility of another calamitous collapse like the one brought about by Hurricane Maria last fall.
To watch the U.S. government’s varying responses to Hurricanes Harvey and Maria last year was to compare in real time its separate and unequal view of people in Texas and Puerto Rico. While Texan members of Congress successfully fought for emergency aid in the weeks following the storm, those in San Juan got a…
An AP report on Tuesday confirmed what we already mostly knew about Hurricane Maria: FEMA didn’t do shit for Puerto Rico, even when people were begging the agency for help.
Four months after Hurricane Maria hit Puerto Rico, we’re finally getting a clearer look into some of the most scandalous parts of the American response to the tragedy.
Two months after Hurricane Maria ravaged Puerto Rico, thousands of the island’s residents remain homeless—an inescapable situation that was undoubtedly exacerbated by the failings yet another shady company awarded a multimillion dollar government contract.
A woman caught hurling vulgar, racist insults at a pair of Latinx men working to clear debris in the Southwest Florida city of Arcadia over the weekend has been confirmed as an parole officer with the state’s Department of Corrections.
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