President Joe Biden and top administration officials criticized the Trump administration Monday for its response to Hurricane Maria five years prior.
Biden, departing the White House Monday morning en route to Ponce, Puerto Rico, told reporters that the people of the island"haven't been taken very good care of.""They've been trying like hell to catch up from the last hurricane," the president added, just days after Hurricane Fiona left millions of Puerto Ricans without power and water."I want to see the state of affairs today and make sure we push everything we can.
"The last administration, as I said at the top, restricted [the] ability for Puerto Rico to access $5 billion in funds," Jean-Pierre told reporters traveling on Air Force One."And so, that's including for critical recovery and reconstruction needs, and so, that's what we saw in the last administration."
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