Puerto Rico faces food-stamp crisis as Trump privately vents about federal aid

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

Want something else to be disgusted with Trump about?

At the Casa Ismael clinic for HIV-positive men with severe health complications, the staff used to immediately change patients’ diapers after they were soiled.

But last week, clinic administrator Myrna Izquierdo told the nurses that had to stop. To save money, the nonprofit clinic, which relies on its patients’ food-stamp money for funding, will ask patients to sit in diapers in which they have repeatedly urinated, sometimes for hours....

But at an Oval Office meeting on Feb. 22, Trump asked top advisers for ways to limit federal support from going to Puerto Rico, believing it is taking money that should be going to the mainland, according to senior administration officials who spoke on the condition of anonymity to share details of the president’s private remarks....

Trump has also privately signaled he will not approve any additional help for Puerto Rico beyond the food-stamp money, setting up a congressional showdown with Democrats who have pushed for more expansive help for the island.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/economy/puerto-rico-faces-food-stamps-crisis-as-trump-privately-vents-about-federal-aid-to-hurricane-maria-battered-island/2019/03/25/ade500fe-4cb3-11e9-b79a-961983b7e0cd_story.html?utm_term=.076322cbcd83&wpisrc=nl_most&wpmm=1

There should be a way to donate to this clinic so dying patients at least don't have to lie in their dirty diapers. This situation is insane and outrageous and I hope Trump fries in hell for it.

[lpbk2713]

1. Looking for more money for his silly ass wall.

PR still is nowhere back to normal from the hurricane devastation.

[notdarkyet]

2. He needs to donate his golf money for awhile to PR. That would be the Christian thing to do.

He has that new golf machine he bought for the WH.