This is why Trump won't waive the Jones Act.

[Are_grits_groceries]

"Trump on why he won’t waive the Jones Act: “A lot of people who are in the shipping industry don’t want” it lifted."
https://www.wsj.com/articles/lawmakers-seek-waiver-of-law-barring-foreign-ships-from-delivering-aid-to-puerto-rico-1506529999

Bastards.
Keelhaul them!

[delisen]

1. Needs to be permanently lifted?

[louis-t]

2. Ohhhh, so let people die because

a couple of his friends in the shipping industry are having a fit?

[Sneederbunk]

4. Bingo

[gratuitous]

3. This is a golden opportunity to stick it to hurricane victims

You think rapacious shipping companies should have to suffer when they could be making beaucoup bucks off the suffering of millions? What kind of cold, heartless thinking is that? If those Puerto Ricans didn't want to get stuck with predatory pricing, maybe they should have all bought their own cargo ships!

There. Libertarian knuckleheads can now go about their daily business since their asinine argument has already been posted.

[genxlib]

5. Elaine Chao's Family in the shipping industry

I am calling it now that this has McConnell's fingerprints on it.

[Lars39]

7. Good call!

[Snotcicles]

8. +1 nt

[Wellstone ruled]

9. Think you nailed the real cause.

Chao's family just received a exclusive contract to operate all inner Coastal Shipping,which includes all Territories.

The sent is so strong and you are on to it.

[hedda_foil]

13. Why isn't that unbelievable?

Why, why, why???

[Wellstone ruled]

15. When Mr.Mueller gets

done with this bunch,Mitchy and Pauly will have plenty of time on their hands to make license plates.

[hedda_foil]

20. From your mouth to the great prison guard in the sky or wherever.

[Wellstone ruled]

22. Orange might look

becoming on the Boy's.

[Sunriser13]

23. Why? It doesn't look good on Trump.

Maybe black & white stripes for all?

[Wellstone ruled]

25. Ah geez!

Okay,go with the stripes then. Fussy.

[Doreen]

26. Do not forget the pink underwear.

[Jakes Progress]

16. That this country elects such soulless husks is shame on us.

[genxlib]

12. I am making a further prediction

This will be the tipping point that turns Maria into his Katrina

Up until now, it has been casual disregard.

This is an active decision to choose corporate economics over American lives.

[HughBeaumont]

29. McConnell's grubby mitts are on a LOT of things.

Pale Man's the reason we have a 5-4 court. Pale Man's the reason a ton of obstruction occurred during the Obama administration.

HorseSHIT he didn't know about the Russian meddling. HorseSHIT he didn't know 2016 was in the bag. He practically tripped over himself to deny a moderate judge his due appointment.

[asiliveandbreathe]

6. PR is feeling the full affect of a hurricane, along with a Dotard in the WH -

a white supremacist - a racist - and pure out and out aynryanrand affect....

Can you also fathom the so called gov in TX - who has a multimillion dollar fund he could release to help Houston..but NOOOOOO - will not feed the PANIC..and will wait for legislation in January...WTF

[spanone]

10. it was lifted for texas and florida - a two week waiver.....no one used that excuse.

The DHS issued a two-week waiver, requested by the Department of Defense (DOD), to allow fuel shipments to Texas and Florida after Hurricanes Harvey and Irma.

http://thehill.com/policy/transportation/352669-trump-administration-considering-jones-act-waiver-for-puerto-rico

[Duppers]

24. OP that info for more eyes.

Thanks.

[mahatmakanejeeves]

11. Trump *explicitly* says he's not allowing more aid ships into PR because he's siding with industry

Retweeted by David Fahrenthold: https://twitter.com/Fahrenthold

Trump *explicitly* says he's not allowing more aid ships into Puerto Rico because he's siding with industry.

Link to tweet

Trump on why he won’t waive the Jones Act: “A lot of people who are in the shipping industry don’t want” it lifted.

Link to tweet

Lawmakers Seek Waiver of Law Barring Foreign Ships From Delivering Aid to Puerto Rico

The Jones Act has been waived following past natural disasters

By Natalie Andrews and Paul Page

https://twitter.com/nataliewsj

https://twitter.com/PaulPage

Updated Sept. 27, 2017 1:32 p.m. ET

WASHINGTON—Lawmakers are calling on the Trump administration to permit foreign-flagged vessels to ship relief supplies from U.S. ports to storm-ravaged Puerto Rico, asking the Department of Homeland Security to waive a law they say will burden the aid effort and increase the cost of critical supplies to islanders.

The 1920 Jones Act, regarded as one of the cornerstones of U.S. maritime policy, requires that goods shipped between U.S. ports be carried by vessels built in the U.S., majority-owned by American firms and crewed by U.S. citizens. The Department of Homeland Security hasn’t waived the act for Puerto Rico, which was devastated by Hurricane Maria last week.
....

“Based on consultation with other Federal agencies, DHS’s current assessment is that there is sufficient numbers of U.S.-flagged vessels to move commodities to Puerto Rico,” spokesman David Lapan wrote in an email.

President Donald Trump told reporters Wednesday he was considering waiving the act but hesitated because “a lot of people that work in the shipping industry... don’t want the Jones Act lifted.” ... He added: “We have a lot of ships out there right now.”
....

Write to Natalie Andrews at [e-mail] and Paul Page at [e-mail]

[HipChick]

18. Temporary Waiver?

or must it be paid with with lives of US citizens?

[raven mad]

14. You really don't want to know what I yelled

at the top of my lungs, and threw a flashlight into a wall, and I have never hated......... until now.

[logosoco]

17. $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$nt

[iluvtennis]

19. But they lifted it for Texas and Florida. Do the demographics of PR have anything to do with it

[logosoco]

21. Well it's only the ungrateful brown people that really earn big bucks (Sarcasm)

[napi21]

27. But they lifted it for Texas & Florida! I/m starting to believe those who claim Con didn't know

Americans before 2 days ago! As ba as the situation is in Tx. & Fla. it sounds worse in Puerto Rico. People have no water, they're running out of food, and those two things are NECESSARY for human life! There are NO EXCUSES!

[kentuck]

28. Trump must have a monetary interest?

in the shipping industry?

[kentuck]

30. They now say they are going to lift the Jones Act temporarily.

I guess they were going to remain silent if it had not become a public story?

[Guy Whitey Corngood]

31. Apparently it will now be lifted. Unless of course the psychopaths decide to flip yet

again. One can only hope.

[L. Coyote]

32. And yet he just succumbed to political pressure.