The swamp is full of blood. We learn more and more every day about just how evil this administration and their Republican supporters can be. This is from a Washington Post story about a departing HUD official. Buried in the story is this little tidbit.
Last fall, Patenaude expressed concern over the Trump administration’s intervention in disaster-recovery money that Congress had appropriated for Puerto Rico and states hit by hurricanes.
President Trump in late September grew incensed after hearing, erroneously, that Puerto Rico was using the emergency money to pay off its debt, according to two people with direct knowledge of Trump’s thinking.
Trump told then-White House Chief of Staff John F. Kelly and then-Office of Management and Budget Director Mick Mulvaney that he did not want a single dollar going to Puerto Rico, because he thought the island was misusing the money and taking advantage of the government, according to a person with direct knowledge of the discussions who spoke on the condition of anonymity to describe sensitive internal deliberations. Instead, he wanted more of the money to go to Texas and Florida, the person said.
“POTUS was not consolable about this,” the person said.
There are estimates that around 2900 people died AFTER the hurricane because of a lack of resources. And this racist president wanted the money allocated to save lives in Puerto Rico to go to more white Texas and Florida.
If I stood by and watched my neighbor die of thirst or starvation or a lack of medical attention, while I had plenty of everything they needed, I would probably be charged with some form of negligent homicide.
Republicans have wanted to repeal the ACA even though studies have shown that as many as 17,000 people a year would die. When do we wake up to who these people really are?
The Republican cult must never ever be allowed to obtain power again.
RESIST!