FACT CHECK FRIDAY: Pres. Trump has falsely claimed for weeks that Puerto Rico has been given $91 billion for Hurricane Maria recovery efforts. They have not. It's not even close.
President Donald Trump held an impromptu news conference with a small number of reporters at the White House on Thursday during an event calling for new laws to protect patients from unexpectedness medical bills. It's a popular, bipartisan issue, but the president drew attention away from his own initiative by then firing off a number of off-topic falsehoods as he engaged with members of the press.
According to the Washington Post, Puerto Rico has spent about $11 billion of the roughly $40 billion allocated by Congress so far. https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2019/05/07/president-trumps-claim-that-puerto-rico-has-been-given-billion/ The president suggests that because he was rebuffed, Mueller is conflicted and seeking retribution through his report.On pages 80-81, Vol. II of Mueller’s report, a redacted version of which was released last week, Trump's chief strategist at the time, Steve Bannon, flatly rejects the premise of Trump's claim.
But the deal isn't done yet. And while both companies says are expressing optimism that a deal can be made, it's not certain. And while many on both sides of the political spectrum would argue tariffs are an effective tool for negotiating trade concessions with China, it's not accurate to say that China pays the U.S. directly.Nevertheless, the president persisted in propagating the false claim multiple times this week.
“The tariffs are taking money out of consumers’ pocketbooks. The tariffs are a tax on U.S. consumption of foreign goods,” explains Aaron Klein, a fellow at the Brookings Institution who previously served as a Deputy Assistant Treasury Secretary during the Obama administration.
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