Trump administration asks Congress for $4.9 billion loan to help Puerto Rico with short-term liquidity issues - official
US Dept. of Defense on Puerto Rico: -15% of customers have electricity -57% have drinking water -64% have cell phone service available
DHS spokesperson: The Jones Act waiver for Puerto Rico expired Sunday night and will not be extended.
8 month agoPuerto Rico governor sends letter to Congress asking for additional financial assistance following "unprecedented catastrophe"
8 month agoPuerto Rico Gov. asks Congress for more money in the near term citing an "unprecedented catastrophe."
[email protected]: Nobody could have done what I’ve done for PuertoRico with so little appreciation. So much work!
“We have got to repair that electrical grid, no holds barred,” Sen. Ron Johnson says after visiting Puerto Rico
FCC issues experimental license to Google to provide emergency cellular service in Puerto Rico through Project Loon balloons.
8 month ago[email protected] says progress being made in Puerto Rico, "but we have a long way to go." "Be sure we'll be with you every step of the way."
8 month ago"We will be here for the long haul," says @VP, in remarks at church in Puerto Rico. "We will get through this," he pledges.
VP Pence has now arrived in Puerto Rico. He'll lbe taking part in a prayer service and be updated on hurricane relief efforts.
@POTUS "We will be there all the time to help Puerto Rico recover, restore, rebuild."
"It was one, then it was another and that second one was brutal," says @POTUS of hurricanes that hit Puerto Rico.
[email protected]: "We just got back from Puerto Rico together We're doing a great job there and they are great, great people."
8 month agoAt HispanicHeritageMonth event, @POTUS says "quite a sight" in Puerto Rico, "we're doing a great job there."
DOD on AFG deployment delay: Puerto Rico is a difficult technical problem. "I don't think we should say that's a small thing. It's a large thing."
@POTUS visit to Puerto Rico was not controversial but “widely praised,” says @PressSec.
[email protected]: "The primary focus right now in Puerto Rico is relief and support in the rebuilding efforts."
“There’s a process for how to deal with Puerto Rico's debt,” says @PresSec when asked about @POTUS forgiveness comment.
Puerto Rico governor: Official death toll is 34 as of Thursday morning.
Puerto Rico governor: Official death toll is 34 as of Thursday morning.
Puerto Rico governor: Electric company reports that 9.2% of the island has electric service-power.
Puerto Rico governor: Water authority reports that 670,420 clients now have water service -- 54.2% of the island.
Puerto Rico governor: 78% of the island's gas stations are in operation again; 79%.of super markets are open.
Puerto Rico governor: 45% of cell phone customers on the island have service again.
Puerto Rico governor: USNS Comfort hospital ship is receiving patients; will work its way around the island to pick up more patients.
8 month agoOnly 9 percent of people in PuertoRico have electricity -Hurricane Maria hit the island 17 days ago
Trump isn't going to write off Puerto Rico's debt, but White House wants Congress to authorize $16b debt relief for flood insurance program
White House says Trump will request $29 bn for storm-hit Puerto Rico
[email protected]: A great day in Puerto Rico yesterday. While some of the news coverage is Fake, most showed great warmth and friendship.
