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.
Federal Emergency Management Agency Administrator Brock Long is really bad at groveling for Trump to save his job.
ABC’s The View is back, baby! And while Meghan McCain is no longer there to grace us with inane rants about socialism or being bullied by the big bad media, there’s a new conservative nepotism case sitting at that big glass table, and folks? She’s doing just great so far.
Hurricane Florence is expected to make landfall on the Carolina coast on Thursday, and President Donald Trump has decided to fight fire with fire, combatting the oncoming storm with the most powerful weapon in his arsenal: An unhinged (tweet) storm of his own.
As Hurricane Florence—a potentially once in a lifetime monster storm—bears down on the Eastern seaboard, President Donald Trump would like the American public to know that things are going to be completely fine. Just look at what a bang up job his administration did following Hurricane Maria in Puerto Rico!
This week the Puerto Rican government raised Hurricane Maria’s official death toll from 64 to 2,975. In response to questions about the new, vastly increased estimate, President Trump said Wednesday he believed the response effort on the island had been “fantastic.”
President Donald Trump insisted on Wednesday that his administration had brilliantly handled Hurricane Maria and its aftermath, just a day after Puerto Rico’s governor officially raised the death toll from the storm from 64 to 2,975,
A long-awaited George Washington University study estimating the death toll in Puerto Rico as a result of Hurricane Maria has found that the number of excess deaths in the months that followed was many times that of the government’s official death toll, and was the most deadly natural disaster in the United States in…
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 U.S. government’s abject failure to come to Puerto Rico’s aid in the wake of Hurricane Maria has been well-documented. But in a preliminary draft of a report to Congress stressing the need for more federal aid to the island, the government of Puerto Rico finally acknowledged what neither it nor the Trump…
Documents obtained by Foreign Policy and the nonprofit crisis journalism website Coda Story show that the Trump administration knowingly lied about poverty statistics in their rebuttal to a UN Human Rights Council report on poverty in America earlier this year.
The Federal Emergency Management Agency has finally admitted what everyone already knew: that it was disastrously unprepared for last year’s hurricane season.
Many Puerto Ricans died after Hurricane Maria due to the disruption caused by the storm, but they were left out of the official death toll. Here’s the story of one of them.
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…
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.
When President Donald Trump visited Puerto Rico this past fall after Hurricane Maria, he insisted the island territory should feel proud to have not lost thousands of lives as compared to “a real catastrophe like [Hurricane] Katrina.” On Tuesday, however, a study from the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health…
There’s a big, early-season storm blowing itself out in the Gulf of Mexico...There are over 700 known dead so far...That’s nature. Is it God? Most of the dead are the street poor who have nowhere to go and who don’t hear the warnings until it’s too late for their feet to take them to safety. Where’s safety for them…
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.
