Date: January 16th, 2018 1:39 PM
Author: vermilion filthpig
What a fucking drain on resources that shit island is. Why can't we cut them loose?
https://www.theweathernetwork.com/us/news/articles/trump-to-cover-90-percent-puerto-rico-cleanup/88785
The new agreement will see FEMA cover 90 percent of the costs for rebuilding public infrastructure, up from the typical level of 75 percent.
Puerto Rico - home to 3.4 million Americans - is in bankruptcy, struggling with $72 billion in debt. Its finances were put under federal control last year.
Six weeks after Hurricane Maria hit, only about 30 percent of Puerto Rico's power grid has been restored. Private sector estimates of total damage from Maria have ranged as high as $95 billion.
(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3861494&forum_id=2#35168689)