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struggle4progress

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Sun Oct 1, 2017, 04:15 PM Oct 2017

Lawmakers: 'Get to Work' on Puerto Rico

By Robin Respaut and Gabriel Stargardter

SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (Reuters) - U.S. lawmakers urged President Donald Trump on Sunday to stop sniping at Puerto Ricans and get to work helping them recover ...

... Chuck Schumer told .. "Face the Nation" the relief effort so far has been "slow footed, disorganized and not adequate" ...

... Bernie Sanders .. said .. Trump's attacks from his "fancy golf club" on the struggling mayor of a destroyed city were "unspeakable" ...

"Every minute we spend in the political realm bickering with one another over who's doing what, or who's wrong, or who didn't do right is a minute of energy and time that we're not spending trying to get the response right," Rubio told CBS ...

https://www.usnews.com/news/top-news/articles/2017-10-01/trump-defends-federal-response-in-puerto-rico-as-criticism-mounts

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Lawmakers: 'Get to Work' on Puerto Rico (Original Post) struggle4progress Oct 2017 OP
Marco doesnt get irony. C_U_L8R Oct 2017 #1
Forget it, the trump admin wants those people to die, or doesnt care if they do Eliot Rosewater Oct 2017 #2

Eliot Rosewater

(31,109 posts)
2. Forget it, the trump admin wants those people to die, or doesnt care if they do
Sun Oct 1, 2017, 04:27 PM
Oct 2017

they are brown and they dont have a vote

what more do you need to know as to why they are being neglected?

This is who WE ARE now, YOU, ME all of us and the main reason is because of what happened last NOV.

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