Florida orange growers will get more money than Puerto Rico's power grid
BY ALEX DAUGHERTY
February 08, 2018 03:02 PM
Updated 5 hours 30 minutes ago
WASHINGTON
... Rosselló asked for $94.4 billion from Congress to rebuild and remake Puerto Rico after Hurricane Maria caused widespread damage and triggered an exodus of Puerto Ricans to the U.S. mainland.
He got about $17 billion.
Included in the $17 billion total is $2 billion to rebuild Puerto Rico’s electric grid, about $15 billion less than Rosselló requested, and $4.8 billion for Puerto Rico’s Medicaid fund that was set to run out of money in a matter of weeks ...
"In Puerto Rico we still have 27 percent of the population without electricity," Mercader said. "Whenever you have a big number of U.S. citizens without electricity for 130 days the issue cannot be forgotten."
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