Asked if he and Puerto Rico are being bullied by the White House, Puerto Rico Gov. Rosselló asserts that “if the bully gets close, I'll punch the bully in the mouth. It would be a mistake to confuse courtesy with courage.”
, said on Twitter. “When he had to, the governor of Puerto Rico praised the President. Realizing [now] that his complacent attitude towards Trump is hurting him politically, the governor pretends to be taking Trump on.”on Thursday to make Puerto Rico the nation's 51st state.numerous times to discuss the pace of disaster relief a year and a half after Maria killed at least 2,975 people in 2017 — making it the deadliest natural disaster in the United States in 100 years.
According to CNN, senior White House officials told Rosselló's top aides that Puerto Rico representatives were insisting too much on setting a meeting with the president. One Trump official insisted that they stop requesting the meeting, using a vulgarity to say the governor was messing things up, according to what Puerto Rican officials told CNN.
For more than a year, Trump and his administration have been criticized over their response to Maria. In the immediate aftermath of the storm, more than 200,000 Puerto Ricans left for the mainland — some temporarily — and the U.S. territory incurred about $90 billion in damages., while others such as the Department of Housing and Urban Development allocated historic amounts of funding for housing, infrastructure and energy — but most of that money has not made its way to communities in Puerto Rico.
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